This invention relates to pipe preparing tools, and more particularly to a novel pipe preparing tool suitable for cutting, scoring or penetrating a surface of a plastics pipes. The phone element is voice activated so that a user can send and receive calls without having to physically manipulate the phone. The power imbalanced combined signal has a power imbalance between a first power level of the first carrier signal and a second power level of the second carrier signal as transmitted from the antenna. Each latch includes a housing within which pivoting latch fingers reside.