g wrote:
> decaturtxcowboy wrote:
>
>> Tower had a 1900 MHz AT&T at top and 800 MHz Cingular right below
>> it. We took two Nokia 61xx phones running in field diagnostics mode
>> which displays signal level in one dB increments. In a rural
>> environment and walking into small business, open road in a truck,
>> on foot...both phones had similar coverage.
>
> That's a tough comparison to make accurately both because of the
> absolute accuracy of the RSSI built into the phones and because of the
> variability due to propagation. Still, an interesting one to attempt!

Actually, reading the dB scale wasn't necessary. Most importantly we
did a side by side comparison from same cell tower location and similar
preforming phones. So the only significant variable would be the
propagation difference of the two bands (assuming similar radio
performance).