In addition to the obvious dangerous of cracking your small electronics device (like the possibility of never getting it to work again), you can't just stick any old gps antenna on a receiver. It is very easy to mismatch the receiver & antenna and either provide too little or swamp the input. Either will cause the unit to never or poorly perform in acquiring satellite. Tell the truth - you posted this story because it involved a soldering iron, right?
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billybob @ Mar 29th 2006 12:13AM
In addition to the obvious dangerous of cracking your small electronics device (like the possibility of never getting it to work again), you can't just stick any old gps antenna on a receiver. It is very easy to mismatch the receiver & antenna and either provide too little or swamp the input. Either will cause the unit to never or poorly perform in acquiring satellite. Tell the truth - you posted this story because it involved a soldering iron, right?