Reading another thread got me to thinking, alot of you guys seem to get cell coverage wherever you hunt. Is that true? Not many of the places I hunt get service. WE have to drive around for a while looking for that one spot where we fleetingly get a bar.... It was just an interesting thought to think of being able to send a pic of my bull right after hes down...or give a call to my wife at lunch. Seems odd, out of place! though it would likely be very welcome. 8-)
gettin a signal? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XrHqzTV9U)
We don't get very good cell phone coverage from our house, let alone where I hunt.
Ted
Farm areas of southern Michigan where I hunt I get coverage at almost all my hunting spots. Like someone else said too no GPS needed either if you walk straight for a mile you will hit a road! Not as cool as where you are but its what I have to hunt.
Never checked, I try to escape the hectic aspects as much as possible while hunting. I just make sure my wife or hunting partner knows my location where I am hunting.
Like Elkbreath, not much coverage in our hunting areas unless your at one just outside of town, hunting the ag fields. I carry one in the truck but I don't turn it on unless I get to a town that has cell coverage when coming home, to let my wife know that I will be home by whatever time.
No coverage on our mountain. Can't get coverage within at least 20 miles and it's 40 miles to a fairly large town. Went to one of the nearest ityy-bitty towns a couple years ago for supplies and there wasn't even coverage in that town.
Pretty strange, but I got good signals in Area 201 here in Colorado, in the middle of nowhere. Closest town is Maybell, which is not really close, and not very big. Vernal, Utah, is about 50 miles or so,maybe that's where it's coming from.
I have no coverage in my house. Yet when I am 300 yards from the house in a stand, my coverage is great!
My husband climbs Colorado's 14ers. He has coverage on a lot of his climbs.
Not me in southeast Ohio...
i do.
I do.
I get full bars where I hunt and can see the blinking light on top of the tower on a mountain several miles away in the evening. I could call the land owner who lives on the property or 911 if I had an accident--that's sort of comforting when you get a bit older. ;)
Got to get on the uphill side of the creek to have coverage where I hunt. Alway nice to call your hunting partner to come help you drag. But then again, that works both ways.
Coverage is generally better out East than West. Cell phone is usually not of any value hunting in CA, but when scouting in SW WA two weeks ago we were getting reception. In OR I have had to drive 30 miles for cell coverage.
I do. As a matter of fact I'm sitting in a lawn chair watching a soybean field at this moment. I really like having coverage while hunting as I can watch the radar while in the treestand.
I dont when I hunt, but when i film m buddies i do. I hunt western Maryland and leave the corn fed deer alone, if Im lucky I can get service on top of the mountains. Here at home is where I film my buddies, one stand gets service pretty good, but this year we moved them and my buddy was not happy that he would not be able to talk to his "lady freinds" while on stand, lol. He just aint right, lol
I have spotty service in mine.I have to stand up and lean to the left and it will work enough to send a text or call.Can't move my head while talking though.
Very handy to silently send a text when you just put an arrow though one. :thumbsup:
Im with Big Ed dont really want it. If I get something I will photo it and send when I get time and a signal.
Most of us would rather leave everything but hunting at home ,but when I hunt alone or go out of state for a week or more I like to check in just in case. Sometimes that is just a 15 minute drive to the nearest hill or a 1 hour drive that maybe only 15miles.I have had both verizon and at&t.By far verizon works in more of the remote places.Just my .02
My brother gets sometimes coverage, I don't carry that electronic tether with me when I'm hunting.
Unfortunatley I do, but you won't find the damn thing with me.
I do and like having my just in case. I also like to take pics with it and have taken some kind of cool ones of deer and other animals with my cell. My nephew and I have sort of a ritual going where as soon as one of us crawl into the stand, we take a photo and send it sort of saying..."it's go time" call me later and let me know how you did. It makes me feel safer also in case of an accident or a stuck pickup, etc.
I live 40 miles from the nearest grocery store. I can't get cell coverage where I live let alone where I hunt. It's not even worth buying/having a cell if you live where I do.
Because I am self employed and need to be available to my customers from 8AM until 6 or 7PM I can usually only hunt where I get good cell service. But I live and hunt in NJ and there are very few places without good reception.
I get it where I hunt, but it depends on what slope and how high on it I am.
I need to be at least 7000' and some days it seems I never have a signal.
Other times I may get a signal in a ten foot area on a given slope/elevation.
Regardless, the signal is basically not there most of the time.
I do make a point of finding a spot and sending a text once a day to my contacts at home. That way there is a benchmark if I go missing.
Joshua
If I get up to the fire lookout tower I do. Other wise its a long drive.
I gave up my cell phone because I could not get coverage while hunting and that was only 60 miles from my house. I only carried the cell phone for emergency use so it did not pay to keep it.
I do.
Allan
We do. I can't believe I am about to say this...but I like it.
Once I broke down & learned to text, I found it to be an easy (and silent) way to stay in touch with the other guys and my wife. Great for safety.
I dont, it would be nice on occassion to get cell service when i hunt for emergencies and such. On the other hand when I head to the mountains one of the greatest things to shut the phone off and be disconnected from the world for a while.
I don't get cell coverage where I live. I don't therefore have a cell phone.
I live in the MS delta and get excellent cell coverage from Celluar South. My wife hunts by herself a lot and has been lost in the woods (58,000 acres) and called me at home to come find her. Our phones always have a siginal and it really gives me peace of mind..........James
I have no idea, I never bring my cell phone hunting. I let people know where I am at for safety but I am trying to get away from my cell phone.
I do in nearly all the places in central OH I hunt. Not so much in southern OH/Wayne Nat'l Forest. Back in PA where I'm from, I could get 1 bar most times from the parking area, hardly anywhere I was hunting on the ground, but good signal from my brother's treestand on the ridge.
I used to refuse to carry one in the woods, but after my son spent an extended stay in the hospital, I kept the tether attached. Took awhile to train the wife about what constituted a valid reason to call, and that texting is the same thing as calling me when I'm in the woods!
I've hunted the Keweenaw peninsula in Michigans upper peninsula for years and never had cell service until last year. I was on stand when my phone rang. They must have put a tower out there by Copper Harbor!
A few plaves but not all.
unfortunaly yes i do get coverage.
zero coverage north of Stevenson Al on the Tennessee line.
I love getting to turn the phone off for a few days
wow, this thread got some mileage since I left it! Having a wife and four young kids, along with being gone several days out of the week, every week during the season, a cell phone is very nice. If I got coverage that would be even better! thanks for all the response. I'll check more often, maybe I have coverage more often then I thought.
not here in eastern Kentucky.