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iPhone for Landout Retrieves - US
Cell phone coverage went down the tubes with the phase out of
analog. Analog towers have been fitted with digital transmitters, but the problem is that analog signals keep working, though poorly, where you'd be "out of range" of a digital cell. Same as digital TV. With analog, you could have received a picture which might look like ant races, and noisy audio. With digital it's black screen and nothing. Dave and Eric, the best thing about an i-phone in a motor glider is that you can keep the Darth Vader theme tune on it, playing it in the background whenever you transmit. My friends want to fit my 26 with something similar. Jim On Aug 21, 2:20*pm, Dave Nadler wrote: I love my iPhone. But, what's a retrieve ? See ya, Dave "YO electric" |
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iPhone for Landout Retrieves - US
On Aug 21, 5:26*am, chris wrote:
Currently I have a Verizon trimode phone [motorola v325]. *It did have the capability to use the analog network in remote areas before that system was turned off last year. *So it had been pretty good at picking up a signal outside of urban areas/ Soaring=boondocks. *Now that analog is gone are all digital phones about the same? I wanted to upgrade to a smart phone, probably the iPhone 3s. *Does the iPhone and or AT&T tower network work good for retrieves? *Or would I be better off with a Blackberry or some other smart phone on the Verizon network? I suppose having a Spot Messenger make it a bit less critical to get a phone call trough but after the first spot message a voice call sure it useful. Chris Atlanta I had Verizon for several years. I got it based on coverage of the areas I fly. In 2006, at Tonopah airport, I had a fine signal, but nobody without Verizon had squat. This year, however, I had an iPhone on (of course) AT&T. I had great coverage with AT&T too. I guess they put some more cell sites up. That said, SPOT is so cheap, and the 'coverage' so good, I had to get one. |
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