Help with Northglenn

[jimmnn]

Have you tried a different antenna such as a directional yagi?

What about when you are mobile outside your home how is the reception?

Jim<

 

[batrastard]

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8800/4.5.0.110 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102 UP.Link/6.3.1.20.0)

Unfortunatly I have had my 96 for 4yrs. Once I get to walmart on grant I usualy get recp. I sometimes wonder if my 96 isn't sensitive enogh. I am tpyoing with putting a roof top antenna on the house.

 

[datainmotion]

I think you'll find the effort of installing that external antenna is worth it. Just installing a mobile on an L-bracket mount on my chimney made a HUGE difference (and I'm within a couple miles of you)

Listen to the DIA feed for proof.

 

[datainmotion]

So - in the last week of normal driving, I have counted 11 cell sites just in the 1.5 square mile (3 miles N-S x .5 miles E-W) area bounded by I-25 on the west, 120th on the north, Colorado Blvd on the east and 96th Av on the south.

batrastard - you have two sites just a couple blocks away (to the north)

 

[scanlist]

Basically put a marshmallow on a stick, hold it up in the air and watch it flame out from all the microwave energy from the cell sites stacked up in the area.

Wow.

 

[Halfpint]

Basically put a marshmallow on a stick, hold it up in the air and watch it flame out from all the microwave energy from the cell sites stacked up in the area.

Wow.

Yeah, I know I'm jumping kinda late... {WAN GRIN!} But, upon re-reading this thread I am *very* glad. Several years ago we had a company, who shall remain nameless, come to us about putting up a `tower' on the SW corner of our property. Being the inquisitive sort I started asking questions and doing a bit of research. Yup! It was going to become a cell site among other things. Since I already have a tad bit of a problem with a certain tower, now towers, pretty much basically `just down the road' South of us I felt that it wouldn't be in our `best interest' no matter how much money they might eventually offer to allow them to set up said tower. A few weeks after I'd told them to `take a hike' I was attending one of our yearly `consigment auctions' up out of Gilcrest and happened to be chatting with some other farmers and one noticed I had a scanner with me and asked me if I knew anything about the aforementioned company and if there might be any `gotchas' with letting them set up a tower. {VB GRIN!} After prefacing my comments as to just where *I* stood concerning such I then explained just why *I* had turned them down. (After my preface I discovered that I had a *very* attentive audience of almost twice that had been originally there.) Turns out the person who had originally asked wasn't the only one they had been shopping around their offer to and after I'd explained why I had sent them packing and also why it might not be all that bad for *some* the general consensus among them was that they really couldn't see that having a tower like that on their property would be all that much of a good deal no matter what they might be offered. I don't know if they ever found a place around this area to set up but I do know that if they did it has done nothing towards improving *my* cellphone reception and, even with the addition of the new tower to the South of me next to the original one, I haven't noticed any `extra' reception problems with my scanners like I would have expected with a tower of that ilk about ¼ mile from my house could have caused. (I also figure that we get `irradiated' enough already with what is already around here and I don't relish the idea of possibly seeing `glow in the dark pasture poodles' or `garden terrorists' AKA rabbits someday no matter how much it might help seeing them to shoot them. {CHORTLE!})

 

[batrastard]

Any news on when sprint/nextel will be moving to the new rebanded area of the spectrum?

 

[scanlist]

Most of it has already been accomplished. There's still a few showing up in the 854-862 MHz range.

My understanding is that it should be completed this month though there have been many delays in the past for the completion date.