I must say, the testing was a bit more difficult due to the size of the disc.
I used my test rig for all the testing to keep it consistent, but the horizontal plane made lining up a bit more difficult. Lets just say, there was a little bit of juggling happening at times.
I should have prepped better
Sometimes I would get an amazing result, sometimes it was just OK.
I wasnāt going to post the results straight away, because, I think I can get some more consistent results off of the rig and testing vertically with a ruler standing upright
(The vertical vs. horizontal probably makes no sense to you all, but Iām not talking about polarization, but rather the physical lining up of the MFGC, the reader and the implant. )
Youāll note, the V2.1 on the phone I recorded ranges from 30-50mm
30mm was the constant, reliable and repeatable range, BUT I would get the occasional 50mm.
I believe this coincided with the phones duty cycle of high power NFC pulses (~1:5)
it happend too many times to ignore, but the 30mm is more what to expect.
Which is FUCKEN AMAZING by the way.
With the Flipper and Proxmark, due to the physical size of their antennas compared to the V2.1, there was the offset/overhang, which I think helped to improve performance.
I think for the proxmark (easy) a little recess for the V2.1 to mount into on a PM3 case would be a great setup and it could live there āpermanentlyā
I think the V2.1 is too large to use with the Flipper as a fixed option.
My V1 sits between cover and casing and I have great improvements on read range.
You COULD make a slit in the silicone cover, and it COULD sit inside with an overhang, but this is really not practical.
Basically, what I am saying is, let me run this test again with some control measures in place, and real world applications.
By that I mean,
in my initial V1 testing, all my testing was V1 on reader, approach implant.
If you want even better ranges, you can achive these by placing the V1 or V2.1 on the implant and approaching with the reader.
HOWEVER
In my opinion, this is less real worldy, It can be done, but I think you are better to leave you MFGC inside your phone case/ flipper case or mounted to the PM3 case, rather than removing it every time you want to read an implant.
Yes the read ranges are better with antenna on implant vs antenna on reader, but personally, I donāt think this is realistic in most instances.
What I expect in my next testing is:
A drop in some of the V2 figures, but in general, a noticable improvement on the V1 in almost all cases, which is inturn, a huge improvemnt on the naked readers.
I dont think people should get too fixated with the numbers, but rather be made aware, these are Mutha Fucken Game Changers, and you will not be disapointed with whatever version you get, and you too will be thanking Hamspiced and Satur9 for their great work.
Personally, I will be having a setup like this:
V2.1 will live in my phone case ( Thanks Spicey )
V1 will live in my Flipper case
A V2.1 will be mounted in a modified PM3 Easy case ( But this will be a āround to itā job to edit the file), But I will also look to mount a V1 inside my RDV4 case
NB: I havent even mentioned numbers with multiple MFGCā¦