I went through the Bad Lands this past summer. What a wonderful site.
One cell phone tower would ruin it for me.
We have a cell phone for dialing out. I cherish being 'out of
communication'! :-)
Max Heim wrote:
> It makes me wonder sometimes... do you see a cell tower every 14 miles when
> driving to the Grand Canyon? Or in NW North Dakota? They aren't satellite
> phones... good grief. Damn good thing there ARE dead spots, or the whole
> stupid country would be a grid of access roads and towers.
>
> [the preceding was a rant from the last landline holdout]
>
> on 1/23/04 8:14 AM, David Councill at dcouncil@imt.net wrote:
>
>
>
>>And dead spots - here in the west, we have some pretty remote areas where I
>>have no signal at all for large areas. Would GSM do any better? In
>>particular I have no cell phone signal for most of Northwest South Dakota
>>(100 mile + stretch), about a 50 mile stretch around Wall, SD, and also
>>almost all of the Arizona Strip (northwest Arizona with a weak unusable
>>signal at the south rim of the Grand Canyon, nothing at the North Rim north
>>to Utah). And those are just the flat lands.
>>
>>And yes, a cell phone is no substitute for a good set of tools.
>>
>>David Councill
>>67 BGT
>>72 B
>
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