Posted on 05/10/2008 1:51:49 PM PDT by nancyvideo
Um, actually the range on a RKE fob with good batteries is about 300 feet. Try it across town. Does not work.
For that car thing to work, the fob must be soun based (OLD tech) and the phones must be high end. If the fob is a modern RKE radio frequency fob, the following would have to happen: the microphone in the sending cell would have to act as an antenna, the amplifier connected to tha mic would have to work on an 800,000,000 signal when it is designed for 100 to 20,000 Hz, the phone would have to encode the 800,000,000 signal on a 300,000,000 Hz carrier (impossible), the entire cell/PCS network between the phones would have to carry the 800,000,000 signal intact, the receiving phone would have to decode it properly, and the 20,000 Hz max speaker on the receiving cell would have to work as an 800,000,000 transmitting antenna. Not gonna happen...
“But, I tried this with my 99 Camry, and it didnt work.”
I think you need to take your ‘99 Camry in to the dealer and ask to have the gullibility checked. You might be a quart low.
“We successfully unlocked my husbands car this way. I was at the far back of the house - there was no way the signal travelled that far other than through the cell phone.”
I’ll bet it won’t work when he locks his keys in the car at the local tavern. I’ll bet he’d like to give that a try. ;^)
cell phone bump
That's only because it's impossible.
Try it , its a load of bs
ping
useful ping
“Not sure where in the world this article applies to, but in the US the emergency number is 911. Even for a deactivated cell phone 911 will still work on it ... it will search for *any* active carrier in order to connect to the 911 system.”
This works in all areas, especially Europe, except where cell phone signal is blocked
Last summer, a friend and I tried that with her new Razr and her 5-6-year-old car, and it worked just fine, and we were a couple hundred yards apart.
Bull Sh--. Tried it twice. Did not work.
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