What do you do for a living (just curious)
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I am a Radio Frequency Engineer. I did 8 years in the Air Force thenworked for several major cell phone companies.I moved from cell stuff and now work with Public Saftey radios systems. So basically I am am a tech geek.
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no $hit! i have pretty much the same history, but only 4 years in the USAF and only worked for one cell phone company up to now (although it changed names 3 times). now i'm an RF engineer for a wireless broadband company.
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then tell me why my wireless swich panel in my car won't work unless i hold it up to the headliner where my xm antenna is mounted. better yet...how do i fix it?! thing is pissin me off something terrible. I never thought i would reach a point in my life where i sit in the car yelling out loud at a switch...but i am at that point now[:@]
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switch panel for what? does it have an antenna on it, or is it supposed to? alot of devices that have internal antennas are using patch antennas, which are basically just laid out on a circuit board - and most suck. could be that you have something interfering with it, like an fm modulator for an external sound source (disc changer, satellite radio, etc.)- or worse yet a cell phone jammer, which is really just a wideband transmitter putting out noise across a wide spectrum. i've heard of some jagoffs using those on the road, although i don't know anyone personally that interferes with wireless networks regulated by the federal government. one reason it may work better when put up against the headliner is the reflection from the steel roof back to whatever device it's supposed to connect to. that, or a lesser possibility, its being rebroadcast by the xm antenna. where's the receiver for the switch mounted? if it's behind a bunch of wires or steel then they could be acting as a shield and not letting the signal through. without some more details, i'm pretty much just pi$$in in the wind - but y'all know how much i love that . . . . .
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then tell me why my wireless swich panel in my car won't work unless i hold it up to the headliner where my xm antenna is mounted. better yet...how do i fix it?! thing is pissin me off something terrible. I never thought i would reach a point in my life where i sit in the car yelling out loud at a switch...but i am at that point now[:@]
then tell me why my wireless swich panel in my car won't work unless i hold it up to the headliner where my xm antenna is mounted. better yet...how do i fix it?! thing is pissin me off something terrible. I never thought i would reach a point in my life where i sit in the car yelling out loud at a switch...but i am at that point now[:@]
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no $hit! i have pretty much the same history, but only 4 years in the USAF and only worked for one cell phone company up to now (although it changed names 3 times). now i'm an RF engineer for a wireless broadband company.
no $hit! i have pretty much the same history, but only 4 years in the USAF and only worked for one cell phone company up to now (although it changed names 3 times). now i'm an RF engineer for a wireless broadband company.
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Well you must be an ok guy then...When were you in and where were you stationed?
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Well you must be an ok guy then...When were you in and where were you stationed?
Lisa
stationed on a mountaintop in Turkey (Sahintepe - now closed) and an abandoned runway in Britain (RAF Barford St John, TX site for RAF Croughton (Barford's now closed too)). in from '80 to '84 - been in cellular/wireless since '88. did some contract work for USAF with Boeing, on a mountaintop in Greece (Hortiatis - now closed). had to get away from the air force, i seem to have the touch of death at every site i work at . . . .[>:]