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- 07-03-2007, 12:41 PM #1Steve WalkerGuest
Hi folks -
Is this socket a standard connection type? I can't find an equivalent
plug, and I'd like to play around with external antenna to see if I can get
a better signal at home in a rural wilderness....
Mobiland seem to sell an adaptor flylead (listed as " Handset Antenna
Connector" at http://tinyurl.com/2b286d) but I'd prefer not to have a
patchwork of connectors.
TIA for any info -
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- 07-03-2007, 02:13 PM #2Peter ParryGuest
Re: Aerial socket on back of Nokia 6310i ?
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:03 +0100, "Steve Walker"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Is this socket a standard connection type?
Yes, it's a standard Nokia 6310. Don't ask me why the whole RF
industry has managed since Marconi on about 5 connectors but the
Mobile phone industry needs a completely different connector for each
model of every phone ever made but they do.
>I can't find an equivalent plug,
It is a special Hirose connector as far as I have been able to make
out.
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- 07-03-2007, 03:40 PM #3Steve WalkerGuest
Re: Aerial socket on back of Nokia 6310i ?
Peter Parry wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:03 +0100, "Steve Walker"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Is this socket a standard connection type?
>
> Yes, it's a standard Nokia 6310. Don't ask me why the whole RF
> industry has managed since Marconi on about 5 connectors but the
> Mobile phone industry needs a completely different connector for each
> model of every phone ever made but they do.
Thanks Peter, I feared as much.... Mobiland is my only option then.
> Allgon 1800 Signal Enhancers now GBP20.
Confirmed my order yesterday, hopefully that email made it through the
filter?
- 07-04-2007, 03:32 AM #4RCCGuest
Re: Aerial socket on back of Nokia 6310i ?
In message <[email protected]>, Steve Walker
<[email protected]> writes
>Peter Parry wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:03 +0100, "Steve Walker"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Is this socket a standard connection type?
>>
>>
>
>> Allgon 1800 Signal Enhancers now GBP20.
>
>Confirmed my order yesterday, hopefully that email made it through the
>filter?
>
Steve
Can you let us know how you get on - signal is poor where I live, OK if
I stand in the corner of my office but goes off if I move about! If the
aerial enhances things I might follow your route.
Thanks
--
Richard C
- 07-04-2007, 04:22 AM #5MBGuest
Re: Aerial socket on back of Nokia 6310i ?
"Peter Parry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:03 +0100, "Steve Walker"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>>Is this socket a standard connection type?
>
> Yes, it's a standard Nokia 6310. Don't ask me why the whole RF
> industry has managed since Marconi on about 5 connectors but the
> Mobile phone industry needs a completely different connector for each
> model of every phone ever made but they do.
>
Five RF connectors?
BNC
TNC
C
N
SC
LN
SMA
SMB
SMC
Belling Lee
Miniature Belling Lee
EIA
Dezifix
GR
Dozens more
- 07-04-2007, 06:20 AM #6Peter ParryGuest
Re: Aerial socket on back of Nokia 6310i ?
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:22:18 +0100, "MB" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Five RF connectors?
OK - a _slight_ understatement :-) It still doesn't explain why
phone companies seem to have to use a different (non standard) aerial
connector on almost every phone variant they produce.
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Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/
- 07-04-2007, 01:16 PM #7Ivor JonesGuest
Re: Aerial socket on back of Nokia 6310i ?
"Steve Walker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]
> Peter Parry wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:03 +0100, "Steve Walker"
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Is this socket a standard connection type?
> >
> > Yes, it's a standard Nokia 6310. Don't ask me why the
> > whole RF industry has managed since Marconi on about 5
> > connectors but the Mobile phone industry needs a
> > completely different connector for each model of every
> > phone ever made but they do.
>
> Thanks Peter, I feared as much.... Mobiland is my
> only option then.
Or you could do what I did, as long as you're capable of minimal
construction.
Get a CARK-91 car kit off eBay, put it in a constructor's project box,
ideally with a sloping front panel. Mount the phone cradle on the front of
this and fit the speaker and microphone where convenient. If you prefer to
talk via a handset, get the HSU-1 and mount this alongside the phone
cradle.
Inside, put a small 12V PSU and cable the antenna socket to a TNC on the
rear. Plug a magnetic mount aerial into this and place where you get the
best signal.
Result of an hour's work, one desk-standing 6310i..!
Ivor
- 07-04-2007, 01:19 PM #8Ivor JonesGuest
Re: Aerial socket on back of Nokia 6310i ?
"Peter Parry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:22:18 +0100, "MB" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> > Five RF connectors?
>
> OK - a _slight_ understatement :-) It still doesn't
> explain why phone companies seem to have to use a
> different (non standard) aerial connector on almost every
> phone variant they produce.
For the same reason every piece of kit from camcorders to Ipods have
different batteries - to force you to buy their overpriced accessories.
When I bought my last digital camera, a key condition was that it accepted
2 AA cells.
Ivor
- 07-04-2007, 01:38 PM #9Peter ParryGuest
Re: Aerial socket on back of Nokia 6310i ?
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:19:07 +0100, "Ivor Jones"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>For the same reason every piece of kit from camcorders to Ipods have
>different batteries - to force you to buy their overpriced accessories.
I really wouldn't mind if this was the case but having produced these
damn fool connectors the phone manufacturers then usually don't sell
anything to go in them.
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Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/
- 07-04-2007, 01:41 PM #10Peter ParryGuest
Re: Aerial socket on back of Nokia 6310i ?
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:16:56 +0100, "Ivor Jones"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Result of an hour's work, one desk-standing 6310i..!
Many moons ago we made a desk mounted 2140 for someone who required
it to match his antique desk. Most of the car kit lived behind the
desk but somewhere I still have a photograph of what was probably the
only Mahogany mobile phone holder ever made.
--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/
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