I need to know if I can apply power without antennae. This is a huge problem for me, I am surrounded and cannot start the device with wifi connected that would cause me to doubt integrity because my adversary automates their moves with HUGE AI.
Please tell, if I can apply power to the new l009 without antennae. There is a yellow sticker on it.
Further more, how can I guarantee the device has not been tampered with? People in my country don’t respect such things and will gladly do things to it as there are no consequences. I really need to know this info. Is a device reset a hardware reset? Is it guaranteed? Or can crafty electrical engineers do something to it and waylay me.
The warning is correct. All that energy has to go somewhere. If not into the antenna and thence into the air, then where? Back into the circuit is where, if you try to run the radio without a load.
The clean solution is to attach a mating (male, in this case) “RP-SMA terminator” which turns the unused energy into heat. This will keep the radio from frying itself until you, in your slow human way, have time to get logged in and reconfigure things to your satisfaction. Then you can shut the device down and swap in the antennas.
how can I guarantee the device has not been tampered with? …can crafty electrical engineers do something to it and waylay me.
If the device is in someone else’s hands long enough for them to bring in EEs to make malicious hardware changes, you’re boned short of a complete tear-down and audit. You can’t solve that class of problem in software. You need a trustworthy supply chain.