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  1. Trip
    They are constantly adding 600 MHz, though primarily in rural areas right now. In most of the urban areas, it is dependent on the repack; Los Angeles/San Diego, Denver, Miami, Kansas City, and Houston should be cleared out within the next few weeks, even though T-Mobile has managed to squeeze some 5x5 deployments into some of those areas. - Trip
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    It usually takes ECFS a day or two to make public things that are filed. I'm not sure why T-Mobile included a link that didn't work yet in their press release, but it may well start working later today. Here's the FCC PN announcing the clock stoppage: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-19-161A1.pdf This appears to be the February 22 document: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/102221766502159/Feb 21 Public Ex Parte.pdf I do not see the March 6 filing yet. - Trip
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    I believe it. They can certainly operate 5G-NR on 600 MHz, which I assume is what they plan to do. If, as some articles have suggested, failure to operate 5G-NR in mmWave spectrum makes it not "real 5G", however... - Trip
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    It appears that the three sites on the eastern shore of the Potomac at the three sites in DC. So coverage doesn't extend into Maryland. This is odd, because there are a number of Massive MIMO installations, from what I can glean from the MLS data, between the DC/Maryland border and the Beltway in Montgomery County, including near Bethesda and the water tower at Cabin John. - Trip
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    In the DC area, that correlates well with sites where Massive MIMO sites have been observed on the air already. There are additional sites outside of that area where permits have been applied for that indicate Massive MIMO gear will be installed. - Trip
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    HAM Radio

    Trip replied to red_dog007's topic in General Topics

    I only own two radios, a Baofeng that I keep in the car and a Yaesu VX-7R. I wanted to get something on HF but I can't justify the money. - Trip
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    So, this is interesting. https://imgur.com/a/D9y82Ru It looks like Sprint has stopped using 311870 for Clear sites, and is now using 310120 as the PLMN for them. This means, as you can see in the Crystal City South image, that it's now showing as "Sprint B41 SC" even though it's a Clear site. I don't know why Goat Hill, for instance, did not show up that way. - Trip
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    HAM Radio

    Trip replied to red_dog007's topic in General Topics

    73 de N4MJC. I barely use my license, though. And for the record, "ham" isn't an acronym, so you don't need to spell it out in all caps. - Trip
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    5G is marketing hype. The key difference between 4G and 5G in the lower bands is essentially latency (not important for most use cases) and slightly better occupied bandwidth. Speeds aren't markedly different from what I understand. T-Mobile's rural deployments are pretty bad. I would know, I drive through some of them regularly. Nobody who actually lives in those places would switch to it, because the towers are too far apart. In those areas, Shentel beats the stuffing out of T-Mobile. That's why I'm arguing in favor of having local entities manage the network in rural areas. - Trip
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    I'm sorry, I just don't see this as a big problem. Assuming they can line up good partners, like Shentel, I don't see why Sprint couldn't become a federation of smaller, local companies that each run their own little regions, but under the Sprint umbrella, the way Shentel does it. Maybe people will tell me that partners didn't work out in the past, which raises the question of what makes Shentel so much better than the others, and how can it be replicated? - Trip
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    My assumption is that 0 could be valid, but in my specific circumstances, it never actually is. Making it a switchable option would be enormously helpful for me; sometimes when changing sites, my Motorola phones seem to lose the TAC while keeping the previous GCI and showing whatever PCI it's connecting to, whereas my LG Sprint phone loses the GCI in those cases, preventing the bad data from being logged. It's rather unhelpful. I look forward to the next beta! - Trip
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    Mike, Here's a picture showing it in the database editing software. I've circled it in red. https://imgur.com/a/MeTsS8k Also, circled in orange, note the Sprint B5 for a US Cellular site. I see that in the app fairly regularly, along with nTelos B5. Not sure what's up with that, either. - Trip
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    In my log database. It's usually US, but sometimes I'll see U.S. instead. Sometimes even for different sectors on the same site. (Unrelatedly, I'd love it if it were possible to prevent the log from updating when the TAC is 0 but is normally populated. I've found that the PCI values entered into the database are incorrect when the TAC is missing, and of course the TAC being 0 ends up in the database as well.) - Trip
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    Massaponax belongs in the DC or Richmond thread, but I'll answer it here anyway. I've only been through there while driving on I-95. If your service was good before, they've added Band 41 to the existing site. If it wasn't, they've not added any new sites. - Trip
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    The shot clock is entirely informal and is frequently paused and resumed. See here: https://www.fcc.gov/transaction/t-mobile-sprint The transaction is paused on Day 84 right now, even though the clock was first started on July 18, more than 6 months ago. - Trip
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    Mike, Do you happen to know why some US Cellular logs have the provider as "US Cellular" while others have "U.S. Cellular"? - Trip
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    The Raines Tavern site was not operating, but antennas are in place. I observed two other GCIs which must be somewhere else in Cumberland; we'll be going back via US-60 tomorrow and hopefully I'll pass them. Additionally, the site in Farmville that was live but didn't work a few weeks ago is now working and has CDMA. The GCIs of the existing sites in Prince Edward and Culpeper still have the 0280xx pattern, but the Culpeper County sites have been moved to the new GCIs. And maybe it was the placebo effect, but I could swear I had an easier time holding LTE than I used to. - Trip
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    T-Mobile's questionable build-out practices in rural areas is what makes me most nervous about the merger. My experience is that such construction is usually very clearly an attempt to make the map look good and not a real build-out that attempts to properly serve the local population. - Trip
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    I can't help but notice the latest Sprint coverage map update now shows the towers in Clarksville and Raines Tavern (on VA-45 north of Farmville), both of which are "Richmond sliver" expansion area sites, to be providing service. I hope to pass by the Raines Tavern tower this weekend and will report back. - Trip
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    In my region, I've noticed that newly-activated 8T8Rs initially have PCI values of 501-503 for a few days before being reassigned their permanent values. So just seeing PCI 501-503 doesn't mean you're looking at a Magic Box. - Trip
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    I saw at least one such permit in Fairfax County; the Kingstowne site. - Trip
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    Walking by the USDA today, I noticed a panel attached to the building, which I later determined to be a Verizon small cell. https://imgur.com/a/8rZe8Ly Don't see it? Here's a close-up. https://imgur.com/a/98u2DwE Not exactly where I would mount an antenna... - Trip
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    I have no idea. That's part of my question. I took more pictures today; they're probably not terribly helpful. I'm wary of photographing things near government property for obvious reasons. See here: https://imgur.com/a/s5KwHfe I'm not 100% sure, but I think I saw Verizon and T-Mobile GCIs there too. They were very strong and I did not observe other antennas around. - Trip
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    It could be. I'm not really sure how to interpret what I'm seeing on that tower. I see three spheres and then two panels. I also suspect Sprint is on it somehow (or extremely close by; 030493/0318E3), and plan to run by this afternoon with my T-Mobile and Verizon phones. - Trip
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    So, um, I have an interesting issue. Suddenly this morning, my AT&T phone (which I have locked to Band 14 at the moment) connected to 9FD76xx, which was a new GCI for me. Went to a chiropractor appointment in near McPherson Sq an walked back. After walking around on the mall a bit, I found it came from this: (Sorry the pictures aren't great) https://imgur.com/a/jFtDFM3 (What you can't see that's also interesting is that the white pickup truck parked in front of it has "Verizon Wireless" on the side of it for some reason. Might bring my Verizon phone tomorrow and wander over there, just in case.) What's odd about it is that when I'm close to it, my phone jumps between several different GCIs. 9FD76xx is one, but I also connected to A10B8xx, A10BAxx, A10BBxx, and A10BCxx, all at strengths better than -60 dBm. Checking MLS, that data indicates there's also an A10B9xx that I didn't see but that comes from it as well. Any idea why I would see so many GCIs from that one site? - Trip
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