Cell service at snow parks

[skidoo144]

Just a thought some of the major snow parks or winter recreation park should have cell service for a safety. We should get together and see what it takes to get cell towers around Tampico we go to McCall Idaho every yr no service in the snow park but when you get into the backcountry they have these small cell towers solar powered all over. Any high hill you get on top off you have cell service, it was very reassuring . Wonder how hard it is to get talked about and pursued. The local people living back there might like it to ? Just a thought...am I crazy ?

 

[winter brew]

https://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/realestate/L4CControllerServlet


https://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/realestate/index.jsp


You can put in a request, make a case with the cell carriers.

 

[kbl6z]

Your not crazy in your requests to have coverage in the parking lots of snow parks. It costs a lot of money to put up a tower. They have to have a lot of demand for coverage in that area or a lot of complaints about dropped calls. If there is enough of that they will look at putting up a tower.

 

[Vincenthdfan]

This is why I want to buy a Delorme InReach Explorer.

Its like a spot, only much better WITH texting and SOS capabilities via satellite.

Where we go we never have cell reception and that's not a comforting thought at all.

That and the fact that I ride dual sport motorcycles during the summer and usually by myself.

I think having one of these would be a good investment for the wife to check my progress and for me to be able to text her that "all is well" from up in the hills.

 

[Rmkguy]

We cant get grooming done. How the he!! are we gonna get cell phone coverage!!!!!!!

 

[summ8rmk]

Cell towers are paid for by the phone companies, grooming is paid for by snowmobile registration and gas tax. If u want more grooming, donate to ur local groomer or register more sleds.

GS6

 

[Lake Cle Elum]

By design, Sno-parks are often at a lower elevation one can drive to and from there, you climb to areas where it is not uncommon to get cell service.....

I use an In-Reach like stated above....

For cell service. check for a signal when you stop.....Seems to get a little better every year......In 2014, I had MC friends that had to spend a night on Jolly Mtn and a Sledder that spent 2 nights nears Greens Pass......Jolly Mtn was able to call me to get get SAR going.......Greens pass texted a friend, who called me........That wasn't possible a few yrs ago....

 

[Boom Tap Blow]

OK here it is,
AT&T or Verizon only

Keep ur phone warm I use a hot pack in a sock then put both into a second sock. By keeping your phone warm your antenna will work much better, also it will make your battery last much longer.

Cell sites are designed to cover most roads and highways or places of high human traffic. These sites paint highway cooridors/ valleys.

Get to the top to call.

A text is a one way message and will not require the same transmit/receive sigals that a call will. If your deep a text is ur best bet by far.

Put your phone in either GSM/umts or in Cdma/LTE under mobile network settings.

Check your bands your phone uses on Google. Make sure there is a low ban 700mhz-850mhz on voice. Also make you have a 2100-2300 mhz band. This allows you to grab a high frequency signal from a mountain top a small distance outside the cooridors.

Rf bounces- use lakes / bluff above Meadows and lakes sometimes helps.

Know where your closest tower is to the areas you ride, the stores can help with that. Map ur mountain top Line of sight or close too for the areas you ride.

They are not gonna build us a tower. I build pletty of ATT and Verizon New site builds and RF engineers are more concerned with capacity issues in high density areas like stauims traffic jams, and in building networks called das.

My advice is to make your calls proir to the snopark. Give the phone numbers of your people at home to each other's people at home along with where ur planning on ripping that day. Connect the people not riding.

P.S.
I build a lot mountain top sites and we all use radios!

 

[xpspenziv]

Your not crazy in your requests to have coverage in the parking lots of snow parks. It costs a lot of money to put up a tower. They have to have a lot of demand for coverage in that area or a lot of complaints about dropped calls. If there is enough of that they will look at putting up a tower.

Better light a fire under your bosses a$$.lol