Hi Steve, I only get a map with no info from the link. No eight-year-old around the house to help me 😉 How do I get the cell coverage to show? Regards, Scott Gordon <<If you are in the market for a new cellular carrier, the FCC has just published a very nice map that will allow you to compare the coverage, both for LTE and voice for a given geographical area. https://fcc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html The data come from the carriers, so they must be taken with a grain of salt, but at least for Western Washington, T-Mobile is looking very good. Best, Steve>> ------------------------------ -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Found these links: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/6/22613096/fcc-cellular-broadband-voice-availability-map-data And here, which looks to be the full map: https://fcc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6c1b2e73d9d749cdb7bc88a0d1bdd25b -al- -----Original Message----- From: Scott Gordon [mailto:gordcoinc@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 7, 2021 8:37 AM To: trawlers@lists.trawlering.com Cc: sdubnoff@circlesys.com Subject: T&T: RE. Very nice FCC cellular coverage map (Steven Dubnoff) Hi Steve, I only get a map with no info from the link. No eight-year-old around the house to help me 😉 How do I get the cell coverage to show? Regards, Scott Gordon <<If you are in the market for a new cellular carrier, the FCC has just published a very nice map that will allow you to compare the coverage, both for LTE and voice for a given geographical area. https://fcc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html The data come from the carriers, so they must be taken with a grain of salt, but at least for Western Washington, T-Mobile is looking very good. Best, Steve>> ------------------------------ -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus To access the T&T List archives, go to https://lists.trawlering.com/empathy/list/trawlers.lists.trawlering.com To unsubscribe, send email to trawlers-leave@lists.trawlering.com with nothing in the subject or body of the message. Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.

Sorry, one more link with background details: https://www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData/MobileMaps/mobile-map

I find coverage maps of little utility. For example the AICW generally shows good coverage but there are long stretches where the topography makes the waterway a dead zone while the houses up a small rise on either side have fine coverage. Antenna patterns are tuned to where the customers are, so coming down the middle of the Chesapeake is often dead not due to distance but due to patterns. You have to get closer to shore in the lower Bay for reliable cell coverage. Similar experience in the Mobile River and the Hudson River. One of the advantages of doing deliveries is that my crews often have a mix of carriers so I can make side-by-side comparisons. Here are my observations: Verizon and AT&T are about even for coverage. AT&T is faster. T-Mobile is a very distant third. 5G is not relevant to boaters. The resellers like Cricket, StraightTalk, Google Fi are fine until you get into urban areas where there is more traffic; the resellers get bumped more in deference to the customers of the underlying carrier. For travel outside the US (Bermuda, Bahamas, Caribbean, Europe) AT&T has the best roaming agreements based on performance. I get a local SIM fairly promptly but AT&T just works until I can. sail fast and eat well, dave Dave Skolnick S/V Auspicious AuspiciousWorks.com On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 4:54 AM Al Thomason <thomason.al@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, one more link with background details: > > https://www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData/MobileMaps/mobile-map > > > > To access the T&T List archives, go to > https://lists.trawlering.com/empathy/list/trawlers.lists.trawlering.com > To unsubscribe, send email to trawlers-leave@lists.trawlering.com with > nothing in the subject or body of the message. > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World Productions. > Unauthorized use is prohibited. >