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Just got on Sensorly and saw the Spring Hill site. Been shadowing this thread from Brandon for ages, so I rushed over. So gladd to see progress in Tampa Bay!

 

I've been gone for a few days and look what happens, some activity. Great news. Back in town today and look forward to seeing some LTE. Keep up the good work guys!

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Time to start driving around with Sensorly on. Maybe we'll get lucky and map some LTE we haven't found yet.

I usually run my RF Signal app on my S3. The characters are large and it is how I spotted that I was in LTE when I drove through Orlando on I-4 recently. It's mounted on my dash and easily can see it switch from eHRPD to LTE. Then I know its time to run Sensorly.

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I was just in Clearwater nothing up there either no panels and no signals.

 

Also the the Railroad site and a couple of the other ones I know of and the crickets are chirping.

 

I'm not even seeing climbers at all so I wonder where they are. Hillsborough maybe? The beaches? St. Pete?

 

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On my way home found another site in progress at Nebraska and Waters pocs to follow.

 

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was just about to ask if you saw any other panels up

 

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Only slightly relevant thought:

 

I've been wanting to build a medium range aerial drone for a while now (roughly 30 minute flight time). I was just thinking it would be really cool to equip an LTE phone on this drone and use it to map LTE sites in a grid pattern. Could very well be done, and now I am excited to start building it again lol.

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On my way home found another site in progress at Nebraska and Waters Pics to follow.

 

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Ok, besides the extra Sensorly I added to the map today in Spring Hill, here are the photos from today's finds:

 

Spring Hill, officially our first hot LTE site in the Tampa market on Sensorly:

 

http://bit.ly/TKhezm

http://bit.ly/SMetNp

http://bit.ly/RI9ezN

http://bit.ly/TPKUIg

 

I will say that on the motorcycle I passed one tower on County Road 578 on my way west from US41. Didn't see anything on it. From over a mile away I could tell the next tower, the one in the photos off of Old Shady Hill Rd., was the configuration we are used to seeing. I tool some speed tests and was off the charts on my S3 at 26,166 on the download and 12,738 on the upload, which I took from the Publix parking lot nearby. This is the tower location: http://bit.ly/YVZy70

 

 

Here is what I found on the way home on Nebraska (US41) and Waters:

 

http://bit.ly/Vtbm9V

http://bit.ly/Rfq0qg

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I think St. Petersburg and Tampa are having backhaul issues. Not sure why permits were pulled for most of these sites in Aug.. Poor planning I think

 

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Time to start driving around with Sensorly on. Maybe we'll get lucky and map some LTE we haven't found yet.

 

Actually doing that is less chance of finding LTE. Your phone will be busy sending up data on 3g instead of looking for 4g. It won't switch up to 4G while and active 3g connection is going.

 

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