Sprint coverage on my road trip from LA to Phoenix
Found four new towers along the I-10 that were not there on my trip last year at this time! 1) Above ...
- 07-27-2003, 2:53 PM #1Go Lakers!
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Sprint coverage on my road trip from LA to Phoenix Found four new towers along the I-10 that were not there on my trip last year at this time!
1) Above the City of Banning on the hill top overlooking the I-10 bewteen Sunset Ave. & 8th Street. This site was just turned on last month and is listed on that new Sprint
coverage improvements web site. I used to get 0-1 bar along the 10 going through Banning. I now get 2-3 bars. I used to complain that Cingular had two sites in Banning proper and Sprint
didn't have any. Well at least they have one good one now that covers the city properly.
2) About 2 miles East of Banning in Cabazon right above the large clothing outlet mall. (This is a few miles before you get to Hwy 111 to Palm Springs). Palm tree is about 45 feet high and I now get 3-4 bars along that 2 mile stretch where last year I had 1 if lucky.
3) In Arizona near the small city of Buckeye (about 30+ miles west of Phoenix) along I-10 at the Jackrabbit trail exit. Monopole is about 100 feet high. I found this one on the FCC registration base: It's listed as being constructed on 2/12/2003.
http://www.berkana.com/details.php3?...RA&fn=A0323753
4) Near the small towns of Quartsite/Ehrenberg (about 20 miles East of the CA/AZ border). This site was being constructed on my trip last year but is now up and running. Coverage from this site lasted a long way so it must be substantial.
Overall I'm now very satisfied with the coverage between LA and Phoenix. Even before these new additions I thought coverage was decent. I think they filled in the exact places they needed to add icing on the cake. Coverage in Phoenix is also stellar. I had 3-4 bars everywhere I went both indoor and outdoor and Vision worked great.
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Sprint coverage on my road trip from LA to Phoenix I also thought Sprint
was excellant in Phoenix when I was there. Even out in the middle of nowhere, the phone had a good -90db reading or so! They are about even with Verizon
in the city, and that is saying alot considering Verizon
is 800 and has been there a long time. For some odd reason I could not test Alltel on my LG 510. I tested Sprint
via Virgin.
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Sprint coverage on my road trip from LA to Phoenix I wonder how good it is on the UPRR/Amtrak main between LA and Phoenix on the Sunset Limited(LA to Orlando)? I would imagine pretty similar since it roughly follows the I-10 route, but just curious. Lots of double and triple tracking of that track going on, it's getting extremely busy, even more so than before.
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