[philmont] Not to Beat a Dead Cell...

I concur with Olan's assessment...my co-advisor brought his Verizon cell on the trail (southwest/southeast), and only got tiny hits of coverage on Phillips (east side only), Window Rock, and the Tooth. He squeaked one call out from Inspiration Point, but despite showing four bars of signal, subsequent call attempts immediately reverted to "no service" and no bars. (Why is that?!)

>Ched Hudson
Fairfax Station, VA
Philmont '67, '04, '06 (704-O3, Trek 26)
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From: Olan Watkins <OlanWatkins@compuserve.com>
Date: 2006/07/23 Sun PM 09:42:35 CDT
To: philmont List Member <philmont@troop47.com>
Subject: [philmont] Not to Beat a Dead Horse

Not to start the Philmont and cell phone debate again, but just this
afternoon my wife and I got back home from a week at Philmont PTC.
My wife's mother was in the hospital, so she needed to be able to keep in contact with home while we were at Philmont. My wife had a Verizon cell phone and I had a Cingular cell phone.

Bottom line, you might as well leave a Verizon phone at home, no service at all. <snip> We made a trip to Dean Cow Camp in the back country with one of the Philmont Chaplains. Did not try to use the phone there, but we had bars showing.

Olan Watkins

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