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Any way to tell which tower is in use?

greggmh123

Nov 7, 2004, 2:23 AM
Hello!

My Dad is 86 and I am trying to help him with poor cell reception.

My Dad, and everyone he knows on Verizon, has poor cell reception at or near his house in Livermore, CA. He lives at the intersection of College Ave and S. Livermore Ave, 1.8 miles south of the I580 freeway. He has good reception on the freeway, his phone has been replaced several times, and no one he knows on Verizon gets good reception there.

Is there any way to tell exactly how far he lives from a tower? I called CS and they gave me two tower codes (LVMRCAAT and LVMRCAEJ), but she could not get an address or intersection for me.

I have an LG TM510. On the menu under System>Serving Sys, it has a channel and a SID number. Is this related to the tower the p...
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CDGIII

Nov 9, 2004, 12:54 PM
Hi Gregg,

The channel and SID number do not tell you which tower you are transmitting and receiving on. Each channel, in CDMA, is reused in each sector, so (unless there's a change in the number of channels available from one sector to the next) your channel number will likely stay the same through a handoff. Each sector has a Walsh Code offset called a PN. That is the number that identifies which sector you are "on" in a given area (they are reused in adjacent switches). However, you cannot access the area in the phone that would tell you what PN you are on. Even if it did, the number would be meaningless to you without the database of PN's to GPS coordinates.

Depending on terrain, cell loading conditions, and desired capacity, each t...
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greggmh123

Nov 10, 2004, 3:43 AM
Absolutely informative! Thanks!
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CDGIII

Nov 10, 2004, 4:57 PM
Any time.
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gmcjimmyguy

Nov 11, 2004, 11:30 PM
on different phones or all on moto v60?
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