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That's what I have noticed in Orange Park area. The only towers I have found band 41 are the Sleepy Hollow Rd and Bowl America tower off Blanding. One is Clearwire only one is a Clear/Sprint co tower.

 

A bunch of new 8T8R equipment has gone up around town, but nothing has been activated yet. Waiting for the B41 (8T8R) and B26/1x800 to go active on these towers

Where else have you spotted 88ers? I've only seen them on the westside and clay county.

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I've yet to see any B41 on my iphone 6 with this tower.

I don't think that they are active yet. All the ones I've spotted I haven't connected to. The only band 41 you will connect to is the legacy clearwire sites.

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Sprint site/Att and edge T-Mobile. Sprint network vision equipment and Att equipment has been there for over a year. But the middle rack has something that has been added a few days ago. At first I thought it was Sprint band 41 equipment not sure though.

AT$T has been adding or swapping out panels here in Jacksonville. I believe it's for their WCS spectrum. Or maybe they are adding 700MHz to that site. It's definitely not band 41 it would have been on the bottom rack with the Sprint gear.

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Spotted another 8t8r install on a Sprint/Clear colocated site. On the corner of Normandy and Foraker.

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So I should get my N5 next week.

 

I live in Raleigh NC. We are an LTE market, but I don't know if we have band 41 or what. Should I just set it on Global? What about band priority?

 

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It should come on Global. Don't worry about band priority. Your phone will settle on the best network available.

 

Band 41 should be showing up soon!

The configuration that works best for me. (Faster connection and reconnection to LTE) Is Band 25-1, Band 26-2, Band 41-3. The phone latches onto band 25 which is everywhere. Then the network will do the rest. Most of the time if in a Band 41 area it kicks me straight to Band 41 if not to Band 26.

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Does anyone know who's equipment is on the flag pole on Brannan Field road? Across from the hospital and Walmart. There's been a crew there for the last two days installing new base station gear. I wonder if it's a sprint site.

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The wimax sites will be completely torn out next year and replaced with Ericsson / Nokia equipment.

 

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That will happen to the clear sites that are not colocated with sprint?

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So I went back to Blanding and Parkridge and captured these photos and frequency scans.

 

Shed is no longer in use

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_0057.JPG

 

Everything goes to these BTS cabinets

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_0060.JPG

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_0067.JPG

 

Better photos of antennas and RRUs

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_0059.JPG

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_0065.JPG

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_0077.JPG

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_0078.JPG

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_0081.JPG

 

Side view/long shot

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_4945.JPG

 

CDMA1x-800 looks to be active, But nothing showing for Band 26

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/870.JPG

 

Band 25 (1992.5MHz) PCS downlink is nice and active.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/1992.5.JPG

 

Nothing showing for Band 41 that I can tell. I have some signals in the 2500MHz range, but think they are coming from the old WiMax tower or from a different site!?!?. Does the new 8T8R units support both LTE and WiMax? I didn't save the entire range as it wasn't that active. This was the highest signal strength I found in that range.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/2530.JPG

 

I'm pretty new to RTL-SDR and HackRF. Just purchased my HackRF a week ago. Pretty cool device. I'm using a 2.5/5GHz 2.9dbi antenna on it for those scans.

 

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I'm guessing this is the MetroPCS (now T-Mobile?) PCS band (downlink ch) in use at that site or nearby.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/1946.JPG

 

 

Regards,

8t8r's doesn't support Wimax at all. The clearwire setups does but the wimax portion will be decommissioned next year. Those sites will more than likely be converted to 8t8r's also.

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Is that site active? I see the old cables are cut and no new fiber/cables to the tower?!?

 

Old photo a month ago

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_9343.JPG

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_9333.JPG

 

two days ago.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_0049.JPG

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106286908/IMG_0046.JPG

 

they added a whole new section and didn't take down the old antennas (except for some tiny antennas with reflectors). I'm still confused on what antennas were sprint/nextel prior.

 

I'm going to swing back by today as it's a clear day and get better photos.

The site is active band 25 only. Was a GMO site until last week. The middle rack is sprint. I believe the top rack is old nextel gear. The old legacy sprint gear is gone and its replaced with 3 NV panels and 3 band 41 panels.

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Went back by that site. It has full NV gear up and running now.

 

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It's has band 41 equipment being installed today also.

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Ughh the Google Play Services bug is back. Anyone remember the fix? Already cleared the cache.

 

50 minutes of screen time :/

My google search used 70% of my battery today.

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I rode past the band 41 site on Blanding behind the Walgreen's. I connected to the site for a split second then was kicked back to b25. Sprint must be blocking connections at the point.

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I love the kickstand! Makes it so much easier to play Candy Crush sitting at a table [emoji3]

Buy a Seidio case.

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Does Sprint use UPS or FedEx for its deliveries? I really hope my iPhone 6 arrives Friday morning and not evening as I'm going camping that weekend.

You'll be camping and on your new iPhone all weekend.

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The tower on Kernan/Beach behind Publix has NV Panels now. It wasn't there two weeks ago for sure.

I believe that Ericsson is going back around to the sites that had issues. Whether it be installing a new rack to support the larger panels, flag pole sites, and sites on high voltage lines. Majority of NE Florida is done.

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Went back by that site. It has full NV gear up and running now.

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yes.

 

If you have an existing gvoice number (that is different than your sprint #), you can pay them like $20 to keep it.

 

in the gvoice web site, you can configure which is the active number, however there does not appear any easy way to switch outgoing phone #'s on the fly.

I just want to integrate my sprint # so I can have WiFi calling at work on my nexus. I don't have any google voice numbers. Will integrating my sprint # with g voice take over my text and voicemail messages. I'm just running the new hangouts with the hangouts dailer.

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If I integrate my sprint number with google voice will my sprint # show when calling people using the new hangouts on my n5.

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The site on Blanding south of College Dr is getting the rack redone to support the NV gear. Right now its a GMO site.

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Interesting. Is Sprint's B25/26 co-located there? I've got a Clear only site near my work that could use an upgrade to B41 but wonder if they're going to go to the new equipment or not.

Yes its co-located that's what threw me off because the other 8t8r site in Orange park was not colocated. So I'm wondering if sprint is going to hit all high traffic NV sites first then go back and hit the co-located sites and decommission the old clear gear.

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Spotted another 8t8r install on i295 southbound right before the Collins road exit. That same site has clear gear on it but not broadcasting any b41. I take it the clear gear will be removed in 2015.

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I believe band 41 will be available being that Apple has deals with China mobile. But as far as any carrier aggregation. NO! Except for AT$T.

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I thought all of them have 00 on them to be clear sites

No I don't think so. The sprint b41 has the same 310120 ID as b25 and b26.

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Band 25 and 26 are unusable at universal only band 41 works. Verizon is super slow here though. Att is the fastest with the best signal

On those band 41 pics in Orlando those were clear sites according to the 311-*** IDs.

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It may be a year or so, but long term is in sprints favor. Short term AWS-3 would help T-Mobile out , but long term that may hurt them in lack of low band.

Well DT doesn't care about long term because they are trying to exit the US market. They just want T-Mobile to be as attractive as possible for a buyout.

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