...or how and why using your body increases the transmitter range.

From Science in the News:

How to increase the range of your car's remote door lock:
Try pointing your bum at your car while pressing the key ring against your buttocks.
The range over which the remote control operates nearly doubles when you involve your body because your body picks up the radio signal and acts like a large aerial, transmitting it more effectively to the car.
The key and the body act like the two plates of a capacitor separated by an electrical insulator. When an electric charge flows into or out of one of the plates, the electrostatic effect drives a similar charge into or out of the other. Although no charge actually crosses the insulator, a current appears to flow for a while until the capacitor is fully charged. Applying a varying current to one plate means that the capacitor never gets fully charged and a current appears to flow indefinitely through the second plate.
This phenomenon, which is called capacitive coupling, works best with rapidly varying currents, which is exactly what the radio transmitter in the key ring produces.
Because it operates at a frequency of 433 megahertz, the current from the key can cross the insulating barriers of your clothing and skin to reach the conducting interior of your body. Your body then acts as a giant aerial when you press your remote control against it

 

So let me get this straight - to increase my transmitter range I need to get a bigger a$$? Hello beer and french fries!!!!

 

so If my wife and I are say - hugging each other am I able to take advantage of her **** as well?

Thanks
Tim

 

Im gonna keep my fob in between my butt cheeks. Then when Im ready to leave all I have to do is squeez real hard.

 

Interesting

I’ll have to give it a try the next time I’m in a parking lot

 

Touch the transmitter to your forehead and press the button. It really does just about double the distance. Mine works at about 30 ft normally anyway Not sure why I'd want to unlock the doors farther away than that...even if it was to let someone else in. They can wait 2 seconds until I get close enough.

 

Perhaps the radio waves erase your short term memory and you really don't remember just how far it reached the last time.

 

Moved to General Discussions...

 

 

I wear a hat made from tin foil when I leave the house, I'll see if that has any affect.

 

It also works against the side of your head.

 

I know people that press their remotes to the bottom of their chin when they push the button..

I'm like WTF? you are 100 yards away from your vehicle. wait till you get closer so someone doesn't jump in & steal something. LOL

 

Wasn't there a song one time.....

"She bent down turned around and gave me a wink"..... And all this time we thought it was a love potion, it was just a gypsy trying to unlock her truck.