Anybody tried using GPS on the Kaiser on an airplane? How well does it pick up a signal?
Last time I checked I don't think you were supposed to turn that kind of stuff on in a commercial airplane..
GermanGuy said:
Anybody tried using GPS on the Kaiser on an airplane? How well does it pick up a signal?
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This is not a question of the type of mobile phone.
GPS needs a free view all around of 45 degrees from the vertical.
So think of a cone, sitting on his peak, that’s the area of view
you must have to receive all the signals. An airplane is metal,
therefore no, or only some, or even no signals of satellites can
be received through the windows. You need signals from above
and not only from the horizon. Same applies for mobile phones
in an airplane. They need signals from below. Therefore seeing a
movie and they use their mobile phones in a airplane is nonsense.
Because it's physics and you can't cheat that.
There are rumors, some airlines will have repeaters for mobile phones
inside their airplanes. This is planned and not reality.
GPS repeaters can not be done with the technology we have today.
If someone claims 'GPS works in my house', OK, this is one of
this wooden houses you have in some areas of this globe ;-)
In my country (Austria) most of the houses made of concrete,
therefore the by intend weak GPS signal can not be received
inside a house.
wkm1
GermanGuy said:
Anybody tried using GPS on the Kaiser on an airplane? How well does it pick up a signal?
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Reception is spotty, depending on several factors. You can expect unreliable performance due to the airframe blocking signal.
cirial is wrong. The GPS is a receiver, not a transmitter and thus does not interfere with the operations of a plane. I worked on both aircraft avionics and GPS for a number of years.
wkm1 said:
Same applies for mobile phones
in an airplane. They need signals from below. Therefore seeing a
movie and they use their mobile phones in a airplane is nonsense.
Because it's physics and you can't cheat that.wkm1
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So how come they made calls on 9/11 from the doomed planes?
wkm1 said:
An airplane is metal,
therefore no, or only some, or even no signals of satellites can
be received through the windows. You need signals from above
and not only from the horizon.
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In theory you are right - but still it works! I tried it with a Garmin GPSMap 60cx and it woked well because it got enough signals throufgh the windows - but yiu shouldnt sit in the middle of the plane...
As the Receiver of the Kaiser seems to be as sensitive as the one from the Garmin it should also work...
For me it did work as well! Without any problems! It's nice to know wehere you are and how fast your are going
Geko
Duno if this helps but this is from a Sirf III reciever placed in the window.
I had similar results with it in the seat back pocket....
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Maybe others don't have this problem, but sometimes when I come out of a pub/club in London after celbrating another glorious Scottish footballing victory, I have no idea where I am. It's nice to rely on Google maps and my GPS to help me out (assuming my diminished brain functions are up to it), but on the Orange 30MB tariff that blows goats.
Has anyone found a nice cheap/free alternative that would give us city street maps in storage and integrate with the GPS too?
Ferg.
GPS starts at $99 USD for a full blown system. then it's yours for life. sure it's not free, but it's not that bad either.
GPS
If your brain is not up to snuff, then perhaps you should not be driving... Call a Cab.
Perhaps limit your post football rampages to pubs that offer free WiFi?
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Perhaps limit your post football rampages to pubs that offer free WiFi?
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Careful Jim, we've got you outnumbered
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By the way that's Fergus with the odd colored (mis-spelled for the US market) shoes
Mike
Hehehe. Sorry, I neglected to say that I need the software primarily for going by foot and tracking my position!
I find that TomTom aint that hot when you're going by foot.
Like the pic Mike. Hopefully we'll get some more similar ones from Switz/Austria. ;-)
If I were you, I am English and probably wont have to travel much after events in Moscow , I would cough up to Orange for a SIM unlock and then stick a T-Mobile PAYG SIM in it and be happy that for a maxiumum of £1 per day I would have "unlimited" mobile data.
Memory Map uses offline maps but they are £££ unless you go looking in the dark side of the Interweb. If you have Autoroute on your PC you can install Pocket Streets. These last 2 options involve you manually preinstalling the map areas you will need. I have found that the size of map needed is directly proportional to Alcohol intake
Hi guys,
I just picked up a Tilt secondhand to upgrade from my 8525.
The reception, when directly compared to the 8525 in the exact same location is pretty bad. When the 8525 has full signal, the Tilt only has 1 or drops signal alltogether (and of course the dropped/distorted calls to go with it). Ive never seen the Tilt go over 2 bars, and even thats rare. The tilt also almost never picks up 3G signal when the 8525 does.
First I thought it was a software problem so first I did a hard reset and then I upgraded to the latest WM 6.1 ROM w/ radio, but neither fixed it or helped.
Is there a hardware solution to this? Perhaps an internal antenna board that could have gotten disconnected? Im truly stumped by this problem.
Welcome to the Kaiser forum! Before the flaming commences, I will simply say this: Go to the Kaiser Wiki, research different radio versions and their compatibility, then try them all until you come across one that works best for your area.
Some more free advice: Do NOT ask for a radio recommendation, as each one performs different depending on the area. This includes creating a thread saying "People of RandomTown, Which Radio Works Best?"
What radio do I use???
ATTN: People of "1 mile outside Philadelphia = Cheap Car Insurance" what radio works the best?
Will it work if im 3 miles from "1 mile outside Philadelphia = Cheap Car Insurance"
*Update* the 1 mile outside Philadelphia = Cheap Car InsuranceRADIO.nbh
now works in 6 miles from cincinnati ohio!
Evan55 said:
Hi guys,
I just picked up a Tilt secondhand to upgrade from my 8525.
The reception, when directly compared to the 8525 in the exact same location is pretty bad. When the 8525 has full signal, the Tilt only has 1 or drops signal alltogether (and of course the dropped/distorted calls to go with it). Ive never seen the Tilt go over 2 bars, and even thats rare. The tilt also almost never picks up 3G signal when the 8525 does.
First I thought it was a software problem so first I did a hard reset and then I upgraded to the latest WM 6.1 ROM w/ radio, but neither fixed it or helped.
Is there a hardware solution to this? Perhaps an internal antenna board that could have gotten disconnected? Im truly stumped by this problem.
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Must suck to be you, I'm pegged at full bars most of the time.
My Tilt and 8525 are almost identical in terms of reception.
KD8DNS said:
ATTN: People of "1 mile outside Philadelphia = Cheap Car Insurance" what radio works the best?
Will it work if im 3 miles from "1 mile outside Philadelphia = Cheap Car Insurance"
*Update* the 1 mile outside Philadelphia = Cheap Car InsuranceRADIO.nbh
now works in 6 miles from cincinnati ohio!
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Well at least you didn't create a new thread...
I agree with NotATreoFan.
Read the Wiki on Radio's
*THUMP*
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Recent article on CNN I'm sure you all saw:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/09/18/cellphone.sperm/index.html?iref=newssearch
The article says cell phones left in talk mode in your pocket can affect sperm quality significantly. As if nerds needed any MORE trouble breeding.
Anyway, nobody leaves there cell phone in talk mode while its in your pocket unless your using bluetooth. You do leave it in talk mode next to your head as well. If the radiation affects your "gonads" then surely its affecting other cells as well, including our brains. Obviously telling our cell phones to poll our email servers and bring in new messages every x amount of minutes while there in our pockets uses the radio as well, probably equivalent of leaving it in talk mode.
How much radiation does our Kaiser, or any pocket pc, put out compared to an ordinary cell phone?
Should we put away our fancy toys?
Discuss.
Since 'no' is too short of a reply I've been forced to write this out explaining that 'no' is too short of a reply, in any case, no.
Marvel has proven that radiation does anything but weaken the human body.
It explains why women just SEE me using my phone and get themselves pregnant.
I always knew those brass ones would come in handy someday...
I belive most handsets are/can be no more then 1/2 a watt.
Mine were swimming in circles anyway. THC FTW.
Well, mine checks email every 5 minutes. My wife and I are 4 months along LOL. I dont think you guys have anything to worry about
Unless mine are just superswimmers to start with
It's how buster got his
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Gonad
=-o Really?
SO.... I will put my Kaiser to RecyclationBin
No. I'm kidding.
BTW: Do you know as phones "sending" microwaves?
So... Wih more than 2 phones you can made popcorn :-D
Mine are just fine....
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cbass said:
Marvel has proven that radiation does anything but weaken the human body.
It explains why women just SEE me using my phone and get themselves pregnant.
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Careful mate, if that ciybts as a special ability you'll probably need to get registered... (god-awful marvel humour).
freekquency said:
I belive most handsets are/can be no more then 1/2 a watt
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For GSM, 2W in the 1800MHz band, 4W in the 900MHz band.
ExiMoR said:
=-o Really?
SO.... I will put my Kaiser to RecyclationBin
No. I'm kidding.
BTW: Do you know as phones "sending" microwaves?
So... Wih more than 2 phones you can made popcorn :-D
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popcorn??? i dont believe you. prove it.
new alternative to vasectomy? I'll be sleeping with all of my phones in my pants!
Not sure if this has been posted or not, but here you go:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/index.html
Seems like this "sky is falling" cancer thing is getting to be more and more legit.
What that means is that right now there haven't been enough long-term studies conducted to make a clear conclusion if radiation from cell phones are safe, but there is enough data showing a possible connection that consumers should be alerted
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There'll be no way to know 100% for sure for quite some time. Its one of those that'll be a "It causes cancer"/"it doesnt cause cancer" debates for a good while.
Me personally, until its been 100% proven to cause cancer I dont really care about it. But people should be encouraged to hear the issue and make that decision for themselves.
haha I'm learning about radiation safety right now.
Cell phones probably do cause cancer. But the rate will vary from cell phone to cell phone.
I personally always use my headphones when I'm talking to someone, because distance is the greatest decreaser of radiation.
I'm sure they don't help things, but I highly doubt they are the direct cause. Now if you have a family history of Cancer, I'm sure they can possibly accelerate the development of it.
I rarely use my phone for voice calls but I may have my doc check my fingers for cancer haha
In all fairness, these days almost anything can be linked to cancer. I mean even mobiles aside, look at the number of strong wifi signals going through the house. Should we worry about these? A new report comes out every day linking something to cancer. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying that this is not true, they may have some negative impact but without more substantial proof I'm not going to worry about it. I believe they linked coffee to cancer a few years back as well. Will we stop drinking coffee?
I think it's about time people stopped drinking the Kool Aid. Without 'radiation' the human race would never have evolved. 99.99999% of people have no idea what radiation actually is and have no understanding of how it affects us. It's like the idiots who prevented city-wide adoption of wi-fi networks because of their complaints of 'sensitivity' to it and the 'negative health' impact it had on their lives. The same people, by the way, that when subjected to blind laboritory tests said "oh, i really feel ill now, please turn it off", when the wi-fi hadn't actually been turned on!
It's like living we're still living in the Dark Ages sometimes.
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http://xkcd.com/radiation/
we all know that cell phones can cause cancer, because they overheat a part of the brain....
the same way microwave causes cancer, wifi, radio, x rays etc
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I rarely use my phone for voice calls but I may have my doc check my fingers for cancer haha
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This^^^^^
Also hello fellow tucsonian (sp)
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Nothing protects like Reynolds Heavy Duty.
Found this case and I'm almost afraid to buy it. Looks like it could castrate you if you put it in your pocket.
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It's on aliexpress search for Thor redmi note 4x case
Looks awful Is there any point in buying something like that?
There's part of me that wants to order it but it's too expensive for a case that I won't really use.
I actually bought this same case in black. Its strong which is its best quality. The reason i had to take it off my phone is because the aluminum blocks wifi, gps, and cellular signal. I was extremely disappointed to see signal level cut in half on wifi, gps wont lock, and cell service wouldn't send texts. It looks cool is the only thing. This case is garbage. I'm working on extensive modifications to cut the entire back out, which should open the antenna up again.
LiQuiD_FeAR said:
I actually bought this same case in black. Its strong which is its best quality. The reason i had to take it off my phone is because the aluminum blocks wifi, gps, and cellular signal. I was extremely disappointed to see signal level cut in half on wifi, gps wont lock, and cell service wouldn't send texts. It looks cool is the only thing. This case is garbage. I'm working on extensive modifications to cut the entire back out, which should open the antenna up again.
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Cell,wifi, gps signals are over rated. You don't need those on a cell phone.
prisoner1969 said:
Cell,wifi, gps signals are over rated. You don't need those on a cell phone.
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Right? lol
I actually saw that case in ali but for me it looks awful, i mean i know some people like to protect their smartphones, but i find this ridiculous plus if it also mess up with basic functionality of the phone that's a huge reason to don't buy this.
This must be for Transformers fans.
prisoner1969 said:
Found this case and I'm almost afraid to buy it. Looks like it could castrate you if you put it in your pocket.
It's on aliexpress search for Thor redmi note 4x case
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Awesome
Sent from my Redmi Note 4X using Tapatalk
I got them and they drastically decrease signal strength for wifi, bt, and mobile. I did like the looks
hi
Lol
Its cool BTW :3