SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news%uTj.2295$J16.214
@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net:

> The carriers turned off AMPS

I've just replied to another South Carolinian on Alltel, here, too. AMPS
has been shut down on both Verizon and Alltel, now, across South Carolina
where it provided great coverage to the rural areas of the state.

Luckily, I have a 3 watt repeater in my work van with high gain antennas
to boost the toy sellphones up to a better signal level in the
country.....

Goodbye AMPS, we miss you already.....(snif)

OK, the joke's over! Put my IMTS Carphone back under the dash with its
powerful transmitter in the trunk and all will be forgiven....
My IMTS-equipped friends TOLD me Sellular wasn't going to work back when
the first two towers on 800 Mhz were erected and I jumped ship to them.

Dammit, they were right!