Found it.(GSM antenna port)

Vinc Duran uberpfloyd at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 22:56:17 CEST 2008


Wow. Perfect then. You might have to find the alternative back but that
should be possible. My coworker says, "burn a little hole in the back you
have with a hot soldering iron". He likes those straightforward hardware
mods. I'd be looking for a different back myself. :-)

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Scott Derrick <scott at tnstaafl.net> wrote:

> Vinc,
>
> I found a description of disassembling the 1973 that describes where the
> GSM antenna connector is. They actually mention an alternative case that
> provides access to it.
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Disassembling_Neo1973
>
> Here's the picture of the component side
>
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Image:Gta01b_v3_case_top_open_pcb_lifted.jpg
>
> looking at the lower right corner, you can see a hole through the board
> with the ground plane copper around it.  At 11 o'clock is a connector with a
> white square base facing away from the board. Thats it.   Looking at the
> FreeRunner board the connector is in the same place.
>
> Scott
>
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