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Bonneville Salt Flats Discussion => Bonneville General Chat => Topic started by: 1212FBGS on June 17, 2006, 02:41:13 PM
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My sprint phone sucks at El Mirage and is useless anywhere north of Vegas. Who has good service at EM and Bonni? I want to stop using our FM 2way radios for communication from streamliner to chase truck and want to use cell phones. Who gets good service and what kind of phone do ya have?
yours in sport
Kent
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I've gotten decent service on the salt with Verizon. Not great, but decent. The only problem I've had there is when I'm in Nevada I get charged roaming because they consider it Utah. The plan I have I get all calls free in Nevada. The newer nationwide plans would take care of that.
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My Nextel works at Bonneville.
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kent, my nextel works at bonneville guess i'll find out in july if it works at el mirage!
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I have T-Mobile and calling Riverside fro EM has never been a problem. But when it comes to cell phones and the like I'm a bit of a Forrest Gump.
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Both Verizon and Tmobile have worked great at Bonneville. NO COMPLAINTS... Only complaint I have is not much service by the way of Wyoming going thru,,, but do you blame them for not wanting to put towers in Wyoming...
As for the cell phone roaming charge on verizon, turn the phone off and back on and it will locate new towers and not charge roaming. There is a couple key strokes to do this also I just cant remember at this time.
Jon
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My Sprint works excellent on the salt and all the way from Vancouver. No problems, and no roaming. Maybee you should talk to Sprint..........
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My sprint phone sucks at El Mirage and is useless anywhere north of Vegas. Who has good service at EM and Bonni? I want to stop using our FM 2way radios for communication from streamliner to chase truck and want to use cell phones. Who gets good service and what kind of phone do ya have?
yours in sport
Kent
Kent Verizon works good all over the salt. You need a amplified cell phone to aviation headset adapter (about $100) for the liner and need to adapt it to the race helmet set. Molded earplugs and a high quality noise canceling mike are necessity's in the cockpit.
It's duplex communication so you don't have to press to talk and we will be using a conferencing service so that all of our wind checkers and crew at the other end will be able to all be on together. Just make sure the crew shuts up unless there is something important to say.
Call me Monday if you want more info on the setup.
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it seems to me that the dude to listen to is ACK. He's got his ducks in a row and has replaced the "I think" with "I've done it."
Just one more notch in the Ack Attack belt. I expect tremendous success for them this year, whether it's on private time or at some meet.
Excellent feedback, Mike.
FREUD
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Cingular works great on the salt for me. I have called many buddy's back in the mid-west and said "Listen to this".........that was over 300mph. They seem to hang up the phone after I call, I am not sure why.
Chris Nelson
Kansas
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Chris -- Now you've got the right idea. I try to call the office when I'm at the start line, and allow the noise of a motor starting up to "interrupt" me. It helps point out to those who are back at the office that I'm not!
Our phone service is from Cellular One -- my phone's a GSM model, and it works fine at the Salt. As for Jon's comments about some places not having towers -- the map I got from Cell. One shows narrow strips of service in lots of places -- paralleling the interstates, mostly. Stay on I-80 and it works all the time. Go off the superslab -- nah-dah.
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I have Verizon nd have had for several years, works well on the salt.
Glen
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Kent,
I use Verizon and my cell phone works well all over B'ville. And it works pretty good at Mirage, sometimes taking a moment or two to find a signal though.
And I have a Verizon Air Card for my notebook computer. At B'ville I've used it to download software changes from the factory when I'm trouble shooting some issue with my ignition/injector system. It's REAL handy sometimes.
BTW, if you have time to talk on the phone during a run you need to up the boost..... or run NOS....or somethin'! Next thing you know you'll be watching Oprah.
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Hey Kent....Verizon