Good mobile phone network ??
- Thread starter Geoff R
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cap n chris
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EH!?
a) You mean your phone decision is based on coverage for one particular caving location on Mendip? You must visit this place a lot or live in the hedge nearby in which case....
b) Surely you know it so well there's no chance of you having an unexpected accident requiring a telephone callout?
c) Your question presumes that someone has a lot of different types of phone who sits in laybys on Mendip checking to see which one has the greatest number of aerial bars showing up on the display, keeping a record of this information and then trawling through internet forums to see whether anyone wants to know about such stuff. This seems mildly far-fetched and massively anal to me so you're only likely to get answers from people who own just the one phone and who have infrequently needed to make a call from the layby near GB and I imagine that pretty nearly all of whom will say stuff like "My phone with so-and-so seems to work OK on Mendip"; this isn't giving you a definitive which-is-better-than-the-other comparison which you appear to be after.
d) bring on the responses....
Please don't think I'm being rude BTW; it just seems like a strange question to which I doubt if anyone can give you an accurate, useful and reliable response. But, hey, that's tempting fate and I bet someone will now respond with copious details including grid references, frequencies, relative clarity of signal, gaussian blurring, squelch filtering etc.. (p.s. I've made some of this up
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a) You mean your phone decision is based on coverage for one particular caving location on Mendip? You must visit this place a lot or live in the hedge nearby in which case....
b) Surely you know it so well there's no chance of you having an unexpected accident requiring a telephone callout?
c) Your question presumes that someone has a lot of different types of phone who sits in laybys on Mendip checking to see which one has the greatest number of aerial bars showing up on the display, keeping a record of this information and then trawling through internet forums to see whether anyone wants to know about such stuff. This seems mildly far-fetched and massively anal to me so you're only likely to get answers from people who own just the one phone and who have infrequently needed to make a call from the layby near GB and I imagine that pretty nearly all of whom will say stuff like "My phone with so-and-so seems to work OK on Mendip"; this isn't giving you a definitive which-is-better-than-the-other comparison which you appear to be after.
d) bring on the responses....
Please don't think I'm being rude BTW; it just seems like a strange question to which I doubt if anyone can give you an accurate, useful and reliable response. But, hey, that's tempting fate and I bet someone will now respond with copious details including grid references, frequencies, relative clarity of signal, gaussian blurring, squelch filtering etc.. (p.s. I've made some of this up
)Peter Burgess
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Geoff
Don't mind Chris (I think he's having a 'bad' day). I know why you are interested in that area (I think).
If you walk to a point about halfway between GB layby and the turning into Lower Farm, there is a field gate on the north side of the road. From a point about 10 yards into the field you can get a view of Pen Hill mast (I think this is relevant). From this point you can get a usable O2 signal.
Don't mind Chris (I think he's having a 'bad' day
). I know why you are interested in that area (I think). If you walk to a point about halfway between GB layby and the turning into Lower Farm, there is a field gate on the north side of the road. From a point about 10 yards into the field you can get a view of Pen Hill mast (I think this is relevant). From this point you can get a usable O2 signal.
cap n chris
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cap 'n chris said:
The grid reference for the location mentioned by Peter is:
ST 481 564
Peter Burgess
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I think this is quite close to the truth! Although 'hedge' is a bit rich coming from someone who has visited 'the hedge', and was impressed (I think). I'm doing a lot of 'I think's in this thread.!
cap n chris
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Yes, Peter, I am impressed by the WCMS hedge. The best hedge facilities I've seen in a long time. Should it not be renamed the WCMHS?
Peter's spot on of course
Fact is anywhere else Im likely to want to use this 2nd phone is well covered by all the networks, so I can really choose for this location - sick or what !
HOWEVER by chance my new phone is already on 02, so if you should know other networks that work in the GB area or generally give good coverage around the hills, it would be helpful - thanks
Surprisingly you kind of get to like the hedge after a while, but its a little chilly in winter
Fact is anywhere else Im likely to want to use this 2nd phone is well covered by all the networks, so I can really choose for this location - sick or what !
HOWEVER by chance my new phone is already on 02, so if you should know other networks that work in the GB area or generally give good coverage around the hills, it would be helpful - thanks
Surprisingly you kind of get to like the hedge after a while,
but its a little chilly in winter Peter Burgess
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I don't know anyone who has managed to get a signal on any network near 'the hedge' without walking up to the field I mentioned.
The exercise does you good - as long as you don't mind looking a bit of a wally talking to a herd of cows on your own in the dark, with a phone stuck to your ear, in the pouring rain and howling wind.
The exercise does you good - as long as you don't mind looking a bit of a wally talking to a herd of cows on your own in the dark, with a phone stuck to your ear, in the pouring rain and howling wind.
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Tree Monkey
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Theres no reception from an orange mobile anywhere in the Charterhouse area! Vodaphone is slightly better! 8)
cap n chris
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Tree Monkey said:Theres no reception from an orange mobile anywhere in the Charterhouse area! Vodaphone is slightly better! 8)
Oh, you lies!
At the Charterhouse Centre car park if you stand on the wooden bench in the SE corner you get a signal on the Orange network.
whitelackington
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What ever happened to yoddleing
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Tree Monkey
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Mobile phones don't work underground! But a Heyphone does!
cap n chris
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Roger W said:
Not a phone, a two way radio.
Yodelling might work but I rarely hear people yodelling in the streets or in pubs and restaurants as a method of communication so I doubt it would be very popular or efficient. Shouting doesn't work `cos of the long echo so it's two way radios for GB or nothing really.
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hoehlenforscher
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I think an Enigma machine might be more appropriate! There appears to be alot of coded messages in this thread, uninterpretable to the lay reader.
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Tree Monkey
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Your need alot of string to stretch across the main chamber in GB! :tease:
cap n chris
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:doubt:
Surely it's more like three times as much. GG is tall in the middle but it ain't particularly long.
Surely it's more like three times as much. GG is tall in the middle but it ain't particularly long.