I've heard you can get reception from the top of Cadillac at the lookout, but I never have with Cingular and my basic Nokia phone. See if you can still get service for one of these:
Yeah , the HAM radio stuff is cool , easy to get licensed , easy to build or buy a small radio that will go like 300 miles , just follow the rules cause those freq's are monitored. and don't try to tweak em to go on freq's your not supposed to.
All true, and the rubicon has full coverage, which can be connected to a phone line to make a call over the radio. Can't be used for commercial use (if you were say, guiding a paid trip and checking in with your office), but can be used for getting parts for your rig into the rubicon, calling someone to let them know how things are going, or calling 9-1-1 for someone who is sick or injured.
Incidentally, Moab, Panamint, Moonrocks, Hollister, and Johnson Valley also have full ham radio coverage.
thanks all, We are just looking for new phones and service and I knew AT&T worked in places out there. But since cingular took over AT&T and ditched there network I was wondering if there was another one that worked. I figured if it works out there it would work in the other places we go.
With US Cellular I get service at the top of walker hill ~ 2 bars, enough to get out. I also get service at the big pullout on Loon Lake road by the smaller dam.
I get nothing at observation. (even hiking up the cliff behind it)
I have AT&T(Cingular) and I get service at Walker Hill and at you can get 1 or 2 bars if hike up the slabs near the Wentworth turn off(close to Ellis).
Yep, if you have the old AT&T phones you still can get service but when you have to get a new phone (cingular) they dont work where your AT&T did.Anyways the wife decided to go with Sprint and a triband phone (buy one get one free) for us and according to Sprint there analog roam is all of the AT&T towers. So these should work . Hopefully. Work . That and a two week trial to make sure we like them. God I just hate cell phones but thats another story. Thanks for your comments.
Nope don't need it to work the whole trail,just the couple spots that AT&T did. In case of problems and such. Sprint uses AT&T's old analog towers so we went with them. Hopefully it works out. Thanks for all your input.
people that had at&t service before cingular bought them out still are on the at&t network. they have not integrated the networks yet. all the at&t towers are still the same as are the cingular. i hate cingular with a passion and will keep my at&t as long as i can. it makes me mad just seeing a bill comming from cingular. i built tower sites for cingular (and at&t and others) for about 6or 7 years so i have a reason to hate them.
my at&t has been hit and miss on parts of the con. sometimes i can make a call from the first dam at loon and other times i can't. there are 2 new (in the last couple years) cingular towers (tree poles) off ice house road. i think thier target was hwy50 and i doubt they will reach over the hill to the rubicon.
I have one of these: http://www.digitalantenna.com/cellamprep_DA4000MR.html
Its a cell repeater/booster, it really works well. Some areas that i do not get any coverage with only phone I can get up to 4 bars with the booster. If anyone decides to get one try and get the version that plugs into your phone antenna with an adapter. My phone has no adapter so have the wireless version. It works fine but u have to keep the phone directly next to the inside antenna, and the outside antenna MUST be attached to the roof or metal surface... With the other version u could take a 12v jumper box and repeater to the top of a hill. Never tried to use it up on the con, use it regularly up in Forest Hill though.
I have Cincinnati Bell Wireless which is AT&T with Cingular. Last summer I had no service until after Observation Point almost to Tahoe. The other two guys in my group had Verizon and they seemed to have service a little sooner. On a side note my girlfriend had Verizon on the drive from Ohio to California and she seemed to amost always have service even when I didn't.
I have one of these: http://www.digitalantenna.com/cellamprep_DA4000MR.html
Its a cell repeater/booster, it really works well. Some areas that i do not get any coverage with only phone I can get up to 4 bars with the booster. If anyone decides to get one try and get the version that plugs into your phone antenna with an adapter. My phone has no adapter so have the wireless version. It works fine but u have to keep the phone directly next to the inside antenna, and the outside antenna MUST be attached to the roof or metal surface... With the other version u could take a 12v jumper box and repeater to the top of a hill. Never tried to use it up on the con, use it regularly up in Forest Hill though.
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