iTrip Antenna Hack

In the summer of 2002, me, my best friend Geoff, the Incredible Hulk and Hong Kong Phoeey went on a roadtrip across the United States. We had with us a first-generation Griffin iTrip, and I was excited to try out how well it worked. Unfortunately, I discovered as had many others, that the Griffin iTrip worked fine in a sparsely-populated area of the country where there are fewer radio stations, but anytime we neared a decent-sized city, its relatively weak transmitter would be overpowered by the powerful radio station broadcasts around us.

Trevor Shannon has come up with an interesting solution. He's hacked his new iTrip LCD so the antenna is on the outside of the unit and claims a significant performance and range increase. I'll definitely have to try this on my next road trip (the next time I'll be using my iTrip for a long period of time). Now, if only I can keep Hulk from smashing it.