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A small portable balloon and inflator similar to [Caine]'s idea. Except it avoids the problem of a long piece of coax by lofting your entire phone in the air. You stay on the ground and talk via your Bluetooth earbud (the Class 1 kind, with 100 ft range). A fishing line type tether allows you to retrieve
your phone when done.
original idea by Caine
Emergency_20Phone_20Range_20Extender
the inspiration [CaptainCrunch, Jul 12 2008]
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Rather than a helium balloon, how about a hot air balloon ? |
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Consider: If you're hiking, you're probably carrying a cooking appliance; that gives you meths, kerosene, meta fuel, sterno ..... the balloon fabric could be very thin polyaramid which would squeeze down to a small size. All you need is a reel of fising line, and some sort of burner for the fuel that won't ignite the envelope, which would need to be sized to lift an average phone. |
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This is highly Bakeable, and indeed should be. A Bun for you, and a simialr one for [Caine] for originating the idea. [+] |
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Very nice (+). I wonder if there is a way to extend the Bluetooth range even farther with antennas. |
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