WEST U.S. -- Sprint signal improved to my neighborhood!!

Some time in the past 24 hours the signal to my neighborhood has dramatically improved! Turns out that Sprint finally changed the azimuth pattern on the cell site closest to where i live. Back in 2004 when the site was built it had a very well optimized coverage pattern. About 2 months after the site went live they decided to change the azimuth pattern (reason still unknown) to something that didn't make sense to me. As a result I lost coverage at home and so did most of the neighborhood. I filed numerous complaints about it to no avail. Well I was recently put in touch with a new Sprint engineer who had taken the place of a previous one. I wrote an e-mail describing the situation as well as a bad handoff issue that was happening in the area. Within one week he wrote back to me saying they had fixed the handoff issue. Turns out that they did! He also told me they had requested a site modification as well. So 2-3 months later they followed through with their promise and optimized the coverage pattern back to the way it originally was in 2004. With my Airave turned off I now get lower EC-IO readings as well as eliminated PN offset shuffling compared to what it normally was up until yesterday. Of course I really don't need this anymore because I have an Airave but I'm sure other customers in the area will be happy. Took 4 years but better late than never.

 

HAHAHAHAHA Yeah right.

 

The new configuration of the site has knocked out all pilot pollution to my house. The sector that serves my direction is now pointed perfectly at my house where previously it was 90 degrees off. If they had let me climb the tower and turn the panel myself I couldn't have done it any better. I never thought I would see this day but miracles can happen. Christmas has come early for me this year!

 

I'll probably keep it around anyway since I already paid for it and I still like the idea of having a reliable signal that will have a better chance of working during an earthquake, etc. The cell site that serves my house also sometimes has outages during heavy rain. The one drawback with the Airave is that it can't make reliable hand-offs when leaving and returning to the house but I've become used to that and know when to place calls and when not to.