• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Motorola RAXR V3a Disabled Antenna

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Hey have any of you heard that if you use external antennas with certain phones (in this case the Motorola RAZR V3a) it will permanently disable the internal antenna? This sounds bizarre to me. Not sure how this could actually take place without a firmware change. If this is true you should definitely be careful what you do with your chase phone setup.
 
Hey have any of you heard that if you use external antennas with certain phones (in this case the Motorola RAZR V3a) it will permanently disable the internal antenna? This sounds bizarre to me. Not sure how this could actually take place without a firmware change. If this is true you should definitely be careful what you do with your chase phone setup.

Interesting, that explains 2 of the 5 phones I went through in September 2007. :eek:
 
This happened to me, it actually pushes a metal connection permanently away inside the phone. I had to carry my antenna around after that to get any kind of signal. Be very careful before you plug one in!
 
:eek: Wow!! So, it is true eh? I've heard it may only be the V3a. I think the Razr V3c may not have that problem. Why do you suppose they would make these things like this? It is terrible!!

This has happened to my Dad and I thought he was crazy. I was thinking of possibly going the Alltel Razr route. Seems like Mike H is using this set up - or others on Alltel - right? Mike and others have you had this problem or is there a RAZR that doesn't have this issue?
 
We have illustrations on our website warning about this problem. It effects all models of Razrs. Here is the link.

http://www.maximumsignal.net/?page=faq#MotoRazr

If this scares you you can use a wireless amplifier or the induction adapter Cyfre develop for the Iphone actually works really well on the Razrs

https://www.maximumsignal.net/xcart/product.php?productid=16212&cat=3&page=1

You just mount over the interior antenna on the razr

By the way Wilson does not make an adapter for the A , M or XX. Cyfre actually make different adapters for these phone . that is where alot of the problem comes from , They use the one size fits all theory

Most Razrs use an IAC036 , the A & M use an IAC063 and the XX uses an IAC069
 
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I loved my V3xx when I first got it, and now I think its a complete POS. I wish I would have known about this problem sooner, as I just replaced mine because of the reception problems, and I wouldn't have gotten another one had I known. Luckily I haven't plugged it into the external antenna yet. Is there an external antenna you can get that stays attached and fits nicely in your pocket?
 
The induction adapter I referred to attaches with Velcro , so when not in use . You just remove it.

Gord
I loved my V3xx when I first got it, and now I think its a complete POS. I wish I would have known about this problem sooner, as I just replaced mine because of the reception problems, and I wouldn't have gotten another one had I known. Luckily I haven't plugged it into the external antenna yet. Is there an external antenna you can get that stays attached and fits nicely in your pocket?
 
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