We discovered that Newfoundland and Labrador are dead zones for
our US cell phones, because our US carrier didn't pair with a
Canadian company that covered those areas. They only pair with
Rodgers. In addition, for the trans-Labrador highway, there is
no coverage for anyone.
Interestingly, if you drive the trans-Labrador highway, you can
borrow a satellite phone for emergency use. It comes programmed
to only call one number, the RCMP. You borrow it up at one end
of the highway and return it at the other. They were out of
phones when we started, but the ICOM 706 and Little Tarheel
antenna in the car gave us access to 80M and up, and a warm
fuzzy feeling.
My KX3 or my wife's KX2 give the same feeling when on foot in
the DZOTAs.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 12/10/19 at 9:46 AM, [email protected] (Wayne Burdick) wrote:
Have you seen those cell-phone company maps showing how much of
the country they cover? Inevitably, they reveal a patchwork of
Dead Zones (DZs): places where coverage is not just bad...it's non-existent.
In such inhospitable realms, your choices are smoke signals,
sat phone, or ham radio. This smacks of an opportunity. Hence DZOTA.
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