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Location: Madison Wi. Chain | Heading up to Spring Bay Friday, for the Big V. trip. Anyone, know about service in that area? Thanks BG |
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| My boss is up there.Nothing.He uses Verizon. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | big gun - 8/20/2009 6:53 AM
Heading up to Spring Bay Friday, for the Big V. trip. Anyone, know about service in that area? Thanks BG
If you're talking about wireless internet, it was available at Spring Bay last year. If it's cell service you're wondering about, it was spotty at best (I have Verizon). But then again, I wasn't wild about receiving phone calls while I was there anyway. Who knows, they may have put up a couple more towers since last year though. There's free long-distance at Spring Bay that I made good use of a couple times to keep in touch w/ the family.
Have fun up there!
S.
Edited by sorenson 8/20/2009 8:30 AM
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Location: Fishing the weeds | Verizon works on the east end of the lake. Middle and west end forget it. |
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Location: Lake Geneva, WI | I have Verizon and it is spotty at Spring Bay for phone service, but they do have wireless that worked well. I look forward to the trip. |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Last year I was able to get a decent cell signal off the balcony of the cabin I was staying in. AT&T is the only carrier for the Iphone so that's what I use. |
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Location: Madison Wi. Chain | How about U.S. Cellular? Thanks BG |
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| I had no trouble with AT&T on Jacobson point and Frazier Bay and in wakeumup narrows. I was only in the middle section to the west end though. Check out the navionics app on the iphone, pretty cool to have detailed mapping for only 5 bucks. |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | alltel along with an external antenna on the phone worked great for me up there.
Jono
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Location: Chaska MN. | Had no problem with T-Mobil on most of the lake but it was using the ATT towers for a signal |
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Location: Stockbridge, WI | Does anyone know how Sprint works up there? |
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| Sprint is awful on the west end. Might as well just turn it off, enjoy your time on the Big V and return calls when you are done. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Hey Big Fella,
If you tip toe out to the 4th plank from the end of the 3rd dock, (from the left)
and bend over(Facing the water) approx. 31.5 inches from your feet, and pray real hard ,.......You might get a signal for about 48 seconds........Good Luck...
See ya up there Sat. night.
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| Boy have times changed, and not for the best I believe. It used to be what is the hot bait, color, depth, weeds or rock. Not it is how is the cell phone reception? Is it just me or has the world gone mad. |
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| would it work to have a jack installed on one side of a trinidad??? with all that crankin I would think that would charge your cell battery fast kind of a windmill effect |
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| ummmm aren't you goin fishin....no wireless needed... |
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Location: Not Where I Want To Be | I'm just happy mine won't be ringing for a week. |
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| AT&T put in a new tower up there over the winter from what i could tell. i had full bars all over the place with my iPhone. checking weather reports & radar real time on the water = win. |
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Location: Oshkosh | We were at the lodge and on the water today and service was on and off, but never tried to make a call. Text Messages went through when we tried to send them, with US Cellular and Sprint.
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Location: The Yahara Chain | Winston, US Cellular will be spotty but it will work. If you are trying to keep in contact with another boat up there text messaging will work just fine. If you want to call home you will have a good enough signal in some areas.
Edited by Bytor 8/22/2009 7:12 PM
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Location: Eden Prairie & Pine Island | They built a new cell phone tower near Frazer Bay which will be operational in the near future, so for better or worse cell coverage should improve on the Lake. |
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Location: Fishing the weeds | Jerome, You crack me up. Lol. |
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Vermillion wireless