Cubbiefan82 Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Exciting news! I've received the thumbs up from Robert and with the help of uecker87 to get started, I'll be creating a premier North Wisconsin map/spreadsheet thread for all of us to keep tabs on our towers and join in the B41 tracking fun! I'm still in the early stages of creating everything. But for the time being - so you can play along at home - we can start to track and getting confirmation on bands, GCI's, TAC's, and as we go along we can tweak it. Especially since I'm still learning as I go to. Happy hunting! Let me know if you need any help, I will let you know. GCI are key to get everything going . I can't wait to see the map/spreadsheet 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshieZ Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Let me know if you need any help, I will let you know. GCI are key to get everything going . I can't wait to see the map/spreadsheet Awesome!! Yes, any help would be much appreciated! I'm still working on the spreadsheet as of now - which is the time consuming part right now - once I have the layout and info put in, I'll PM you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshieZ Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Quick update... I'm about 1/3 of the way done with the spreadsheet. Still need to start the map. I'm attempting to make it as detailed as possible, for most I'm giving an exact address and I hope to link the coordinates to the site ID as well. I'm playing the very difficult game of "lets find the hidden cell tower" on Google Maps, NOW I understand why some are still 3G and/or why backhaul could be an issue for some of these... Boy, oh, boy do they have them in some "unique" places! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dkoellerwx Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Quick update... I'm about 1/3 of the way done with the spreadsheet. Still need to start the map. I'm attempting to make it as detailed as possible, for most I'm giving an exact address and I hope to link the coordinates to the site ID as well. I'm playing the very difficult game of "lets find the hidden cell tower" on Google Maps, NOW I understand why some are still 3G and/or why backhaul could be an issue for some of these... Boy, oh, boy do they have them in some "unique" places! Let me know if I can help too! Helped set up the Minnesota, Chicago, Colorado, Missouri and Kansas sheets. Maybe Milwaukee too? Can't remember. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshieZ Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Let me know if you need any help, I will let you know. GCI are key to get everything going . I can't wait to see the map/spreadsheet Let me know if I can help too! Helped set up the Minnesota, Chicago, Colorado, Missouri and Kansas sheets. Maybe Milwaukee too? Can't remember. I think what I'll do is setup the thread this weekend - it'll be messy at first - but that way I can attempt to embed what I have in a post and so everyone can see what I have thus far. Plus that way we can quickly comment too. Thank you both btw! The more hands on deck I have with this, the faster (and better) it will be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cubbiefan82 Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Let me know if I can help too! Helped set up the Minnesota, Chicago, Colorado, Missouri and Kansas sheets. Maybe Milwaukee too? Can't remember. He does good work I think what I'll do is setup the thread this weekend - it'll be messy at first - but that way I can attempt to embed what I have in a post and so everyone can see what I have thus far. Plus that way we can quickly comment too. Thank you both btw! The more hands on deck I have with this, the faster (and better) it will be! Your welcome, just let me know what you need me for . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshieZ Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Premier thread is up! Very basic for now, but I don't want to accidentally give away any important information in this thread! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshieZ Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 I'm on the last stretch of finishing up the base layout of the spreadsheet, and was wondering if you could both take a look at it for me? I'm still not 100% sure I have the whole "how to find GCI's" properly, but I put a few in that I'm a 100% sure are correct. I will also need help on how to properly embed it and how to do the maps properly too. Any help is much appreciated!! I have the premier thread here! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cubbiefan82 Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 I'm on the last stretch of finishing up the base layout of the spreadsheet, and was wondering if you could both take a look at it for me? I'm still not 100% sure I have the whole "how to find GCI's" properly, but I put a few in that I'm a 100% sure are correct. I will also need help on how to properly embed it and how to do the maps properly too. Any help is much appreciated!! I have the premier thread here! Looking at the speadsheet, It looks like you may need more gci, Before you make a forecast gci on them. Have Dkoellerwx(david) look at it, he did chicago forecast gci and embedded stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshieZ Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Soooo.... while just looking around on Sensorly... I stumbled on some new purple. Purple where there are no Sprint towers, and the closest one to it is actually one of my home towers. If you search Clintonville on Sensorly, you'll notice a semi dark purple strand starting at Clintonville going south to Highway 22 to Bear Creek. Everything south of that line, is mostly what I have mapped myself. So either I stumbled on 1 of 2 things: 1.) There's a new Sprint tower in Clintonville that magically appeared 2.) Sensorly goofed up like in North Dakota Let us hope it's number 1, hopefully next weekend I can go take a look and see what we have. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffdjd Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Soooo.... while just looking around on Sensorly... I stumbled on some new purple. Purple where there are no Sprint towers, and the closest one to it is actually one of my home towers. If you search Clintonville on Sensorly, you'll notice a semi dark purple strand starting at Clintonville going south to Highway 22 to Bear Creek. Everything south of that line, is mostly what I have mapped myself. So either I stumbled on 1 of 2 things: 1.) There's a new Sprint tower in Clintonville that magically appeared 2.) Sensorly goofed up like in North Dakota Let us hope it's number 1, hopefully next weekend I can go take a look and see what we have. 3) Roaming coverage with Cell Com? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshieZ Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 3) Roaming coverage with Cell Com? Didn't think of that! Still hoping for number 1 though, fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffdjd Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Didn't think of that! Still hoping for number 1 though, fingers crossed. #1 is most likely, using street view on google maps there is a tower not far from there that looked like it only had 1 provider on it. Is there a tower in Bear Creek too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike331 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Seems to be an outage in 54304 as all calls go to voicemail or a rapid busy signal. Near 41/Lombardi 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjs2011 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Yep. Someone I know is having issues too. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshieZ Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Seems to be an outage in 54304 as all calls go to voicemail or a rapid busy signal. Near 41/Lombardi Yep. Someone I know is having issues too. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Is that Ashwaubenon zip code? Wonder if tower work is going on that's affecting it... I know there was a tower acceptance in that area but I doubt that would affect calls. Keep us posted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosoccer Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Issues here in Marshfield as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffdjd Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Issues with calls and texts in Appleton as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshieZ Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Wasn't having problems before, but now yup... Can't get a text through in Waupaca/New London area. Time to bombard the Sprint Zone app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffdjd Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Looking at other markets, Chicago and Northern Indiana are out as well 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n9ovreric Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Alot of my calls don't even ring on my end show's I have voice mail, even after profile and prl update. Sent from my SM-N915P using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshieZ Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Texting started working for me again at around 8:20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n9ovreric Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Texting started working for me again at around 8:20. both voice and texting stoped working for me tonight also plus others I know. Wonder what happened? Sent from my SM-N915P using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshieZ Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I finally had time to take the trip up to Clintonville... Good news and bad news... The LTE that is mapped in Clintonville is non-existent. It was roaming from Cellcom and US Cellular of that stretch. However, I held onto 1x800 far beyond what I expected and many miles farther than what the voice maps state. On my way though I saw multiple places where a "possible" site "could" go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n9ovreric Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 I finally had time to take the trip up to Clintonville... Good news and bad news... The LTE that is mapped in Clintonville is non-existent. It was roaming from Cellcom and US Cellular of that stretch. However, I held onto 1x800 far beyond what I expected and many miles farther than what the voice maps state. On my way though I saw multiple places where a "possible" site "could" go. that stretch needs a site it two. Been thru there many times. Sent from my SM-N915P using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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