[Scan-DC] Interesting Medflight call Friday night

[Doug Kitchener]

Buddy of mine lives a little west of Winchester, off US 50, near Shawneeland and Mountain Falls, if any of you know where they are... he just switched his cell service to ATT because they added coverage in his area.  Most cell carriers had coverage within a couple of miles of his place, but coming around a bend on 50 it would just drop out.  The signal is still a little spotty at his place... he has a couple or three acres or something like that, and as he moves around the property (which is flat) the voice signal comes and goes... but strangely enough he can send and receive text messages with no problem from anywhere in the vicinity.  Apparently ATT is pushing to add coverage in some of those areas in VA tho, from the sound of things.

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> From: w4jecom at w4je.com
> To: b_thom at juno.com; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:20:47 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Interesting Medflight call Friday night
>

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> With regard to cell coverage, our house is deep in the woods, actually
> inside the George Washington National Forest. Believe it or not, we now have
> full-strength 3G coverage! Within the last 30 days, AT&T apparently added 3G
> coverage out here in the middle of nowhere. Impressive.

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