Anthony Guzzi <dukeofurl@sonic.net> wrote in
news:47cddfea$0$36392$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:

> SMS wrote:
>> I was just up in Yosemite this past weekend. AMPS is still on. It
>> comes from Golden State Cellular. However I did notice a lot more
>> CDMA coverage than before. The cabin we stayed at in Yosemite West is
>> pretty far from the public road (41) and I had both CDMA and AMPS
>> coverage. There was no GSM coverage. Ditto for MidPines, on 140 into
>> Yosemite. I was able to get CDMA and AMPS, but no GSM at the
>> restaurant we stopped at.
>>
>> Yosemite Valley has AMPS, CDMA, and GSM coverage.
>
>
> How do you determine which coverage you have in an area, and who it
> comes from?
>

You have to read the SID numbers off the phone's hidden data pages.
Sometimes they'll let you see them buried into the PHONE STATUS pages.

On Motorola phones, you key in ##DEBUG rapidly and the G doesn't show.
This puts the phone in DEBUG mode, at least it used to before this last
batch. You toggled in and out of DEBUG mode with the center then left
function keys under the display rapidly, which let you go back to the
regular user pages. Your phone will certainly vary in how you open this
function up and read it.

Once you have this SID number, then you can look it up on:
http://www.mountainwireless.com/sid/sid1.shtml
and match it to location and carrier. I'm on 00156, Alltel in Charleston,
SC.

A personal question, Anthony......

Are you related to the Italian Guzzis who make such wonderful motorcycles
I've enjoyed since my youth? I had 5 Moto Guzzi motorcycles and enjoyed
every one of them. First class machines.