Trip

That's how I understand it. - Trip

That expansion map is beautiful. Most of my drive to visit my parents is about to get filled in with service from Shentel. Look at Buckingham County, currently a giant void, full of yellow. And US-15 between Culpeper and Gordonsville. And Red House! People in that area currently can only use US Cellular, no other carrier has service there. Premiere Sponsors can see a map showing the overlap of Sprint/Shentel and nTelos tower sites in this post here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6784-trips-cell-tower-map-work-in-progress/?p=419133&do=findComment&comment=419133 - Trip

What I found is that for me, buying an S5, it was cheaper to be on the contract than to be on Easy Pay, but not by a lot. Had I, instead, bought a cheaper phone, Easy Pay would have been the cheaper option. - Trip

Turns out it's almost right outside my office door anyway. I generally see -75 to -80, except that I can also see an 8T8R from an unknown location at about -110 and my phone prefers it. - Trip

I finally figured out where my mystery B25 signal is coming from at work. Apparently, the building's DAS is the source. I happened to be standing in the hallway and looked at my phone and noticed I was at -66 or so. I found a spot on the ceiling labeled "ANTENNA 6-3" (I work on the 6th floor) and held my phone up to it, and, well... That answers that. - Trip

Yes. Or it did last time I looked. - Trip

Two things: 1) For anyone who hasn't seen, there is now a Premiere Subscriber thread with spreadsheet and maps for the Washington, DC and Southern Virginia markets! If you have SCP data that you would like to contribute or other tips and info, let me know. Look forward to seeing you there! 2) Today I took my handheld spectrum analyzer with me to work. On the way, I had it looking at 700 MHz. I observed LTE from both Verizon and AT&T at L'enfant, and I know from experimentation with a MetroPCS phone that T-Mobile has LTE on AWS in L'enfant Plaza Metro as well. Only Sprint, it seems, does not have LTE there. I wonder if it's due to Sprint's use of B25 and B26 instead of B2 or B5. Anyone know? - Trip

Given JosefTor's location in California, I would assume OC is Orange County. Ironic, though, that OC and OC would both have issues. - Trip

The last tower at Culpeper has B12. It made it, with significant gaps on the down-slopes of hills, to the county line. After that, there's simply no T-Mobile towers. Lack or presence of 700 doesn't change that. (T-Mobile owns 700 all the way to Gordonsville, but there's no service from T-Mobile, period, from the Culpeper County line until well after Gordonsville.) - Trip

To provide an anecdote to the contrary, I recently bought an LG Leon LTE (MetroPCS) just to see how service is on T-Mobile, and have found it lacking. In this area, coverage is good, it holds LTE a really long time, etc. Once I left Culpeper to visit my parents last weekend, though, my Sprint phone kept on chugging (either via roaming on US Cellular or, for one short stretch, Verizon, or via nTelos pseudo-native) while the T-Mobile phone spent more time saying "No connection" than anything else. Service popped up when I crossed the interstate and one other larger town, and that was it. I would say that out of the 4 hour drive, T-Mobile had no service for at least 2 hours of it. - Trip

No idea, but the way the PRL is laid out, Verizon roaming is only 1X, with the option of connecting to EV-DO from Sprint. Which Verizon SID were you on? - Trip

From what I observed when I was hunting through the PRL, it will only connect to Sprint EV-DO when roaming on Verizon. - Trip

Not sure why, but I'm at my parents' house today in US Cellular territory and I do not have EV-DO roaming working. Just 1X, like in the past. I tried updating the PRL, still on 55026. Anyone have any other ideas? - Trip

Looks like it works! - Trip

Clear sites are those inherited from Sprint's purchase of Clearwire, and implemented using the Clearwire B41 equipment. Sprint sites are those with newly installed Sprint B41 equipment. When you use SignalCheck or SignalCheck Pro, it will identify each site as either a Clear or Sprint site. - Trip

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/3060-signalcheck-android-app-to-monitor-your-2g3g4g-lte-signal-strengths/?p=430248 - Trip

I've been seeing B41 second carrier in this area for months on certain sites. The Clear sites have had it for a few months, while the Sprint 8T8R sites have been popping up over the past several weeks. - Trip

Where is the best SID list? I'm having a fit trying to figure out what SID goes with what carrier beyond the normal Sprint/Verizon/USCC/Cricket type carriers. A lot of them seem to be registered in the names of law firms. - Trip

I'm willing, so long as you or someone else checks my work first so I don't waste a bunch of time doing something that as soon as I'm done someone says, "you did it wrong." - Trip

Here's an 8T8R second carrier (as best I can tell) in DC I spotted this morning. - Trip

I'd like to know if I'm right first, before getting too carried away. - Trip

That's correct. The 55025 file is corrupt. The 55023 file also appeared to be corrupt. I went back to 55022. Thanks. Having looked at it, I believe I've figured out what's going on in the PRL, though I would appreciate confirmation from others. I analyzed Geography 11, which is the area I'm in. There are 10 priority levels. Of those, the top 3 are not roaming, while the bottom 7 are. My research suggests that the "Assn Tag" associates 1X rows with EVDO rows. If this is correct, then the priority is as follows: 1) Sprint 1X, nTelos 1X wholesale, Sprint 1X 800. 2) Sprint EV-DO, with tags which indicate that roaming on 1X for Cricket and Alltel should attempt to connect to Sprint EV-DO first. 3) nTelos EV-DO, only when connected with nTelos 1X. Roaming begins here. 4) Cricket EV-DO, only when connected to Cricket 1X. 5) USCC EV-DO, only when connected to US Cellular 1X. 6) Alltel EV-DO, only when connected to Alltel 1X. Priority 6 also includes Cricket 1X. 7) nTelos 1X in non-wholesale areas, with Sprint EV-DO. 8) US Cellular 1X. 9) Alltel 1X. 10) Verizon, with a tag suggesting it should use Sprint EV-DO. In 55022, US Cellular EV-DO did not appear at all. When connected to US Cellular 1X, the PRL directed use of Sprint EV-DO. Since the USCC EV-DO row did not exist, every other priority was increased by one, with the Verizon priority 10 split into two groups taking up both 9 and 10. The other difference is that one of the US Cellular 1X SIDs had the option of simultaneously roaming on Alltel EV-DO. If I'm wrong about any of this, please let me know. - Trip

If someone has copies of the last PRL and the current one, I can try to give it a shot, time permitting. I've used the Qualcomm software before, just tinkering with it. - Trip

I will also point out there are markets where USCC only has 850 so B5 is all they are able to offer. - Trip

http://gpstracklog.com/2014/07/gps-windshield-mounts-illegal-half-u-s.html - Trip