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digiblur

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  1. I swear I have seen those maps some where before... I just can't place it!
  2. I think those things would look out of place in Louisiana :-) I for one think they are ugly...nothing wrong with the look of a cell tower to me. If you bitch about the look of a cell tower and don't want it in your town then you have no right to complain about coverage on your diamond encrusted iPhone.
  3. One disadvantage with it is reliability. I was in Baltimore last year and it snowed 3 or 4 inches that evening. When the snow covered everything, the 4G went down. It was not restored until almost 24 hours later. If that main tower goes down then you have many cells that are down as well.
  4. I know the protection sites around here it looks like they almost mount the antennas smack dab on the monopole without a "rack".
  5. That 1100 is from the tower at Blackwater and Hooper (rural tower). I bet that 700 is too. If I am right next to the tower sitting at the stop light I've hit 1700 a couple of times there as long as it is off peak.
  6. FCC Spectrum Dashboard shows: 746-757, 776-787 1745-1755, 2145-2155 1870-1885, 1950-1965 824-835, 845-846.5, 869-880, 890-891.5
  7. Correct. Vzw has the PCS B block, 10mhz of AWS, Cell A and of course their block of 700 in BR.
  8. No doubt. Even the 850 guys around town have towers closer together.
  9. Sorry for trying to download my 300 meg video podcast for the 5th day straight that week :-) I keep the slices attempting to flow on my phone all the time downtown. Doing my part of flooding that tower.
  10. I have a google map link on my site to the BTR towers. www.batonrougebroadband.info There are some other towers listed on there too so be sure and read the map key in the description. I still 100% believe that we had an 850mhz engineer design the 1900mhz network in BTR.
  11. And there lies the issue with BTR Sprint layout. Some of the sites barely cover what is needed. So you end up with users with a -100 signal hanging off the tower all day trying to use it. I also doubt that will thicken any coverage in BTR. This market is tooooo far gone to turn around the customers.
  12. Interesting... is sprint on the bottom rack? If I remember right that tower has 2 or 3 carriers on it.
  13. Even 802.11n is overkill for phones. Most phones only support 1x1 sgi40 on a 20mhz channel. Which means the fastest handshake is 65 megabits while your laptop is connected at 300 megabits on 40 mhz channel. If of course your router and wireless card are set to use 40mhz which most routers are not.
  14. Now that is dedication!! I would be to drunk after a concert to type on a tablet :-)
  15. Ridiculous that there is actually a bill for TV broadcasters to give up their channel they are broadcasting on. No OTA...no ratings...you have to become a national channel. No OTA, no "must carry" rules apply, so the cable co/satellite co doesn't have to carry your church channel. No OTA, no satellite company can carry them, and many cable companies as well.
  16. It just doesn't work when you have such a huge difference between coverage (yes I know it's from 2010 but it hasn't changed in 5 or 6 years maybe more).
  17. It was a fail for my buddy. He's been using Nextel for years for work. Decent Nextel coverage in his home. Sprint CDMA switches back and forth from roaming to native all the time. He was telling me about some jobs he goes to there is no Sprint CDMA coverage but his Nextel has full coverage and works fine. His only option is AT&T at this point.
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