Redigoogle <redicliff@yahoo.com> wrote in news:689f8e7d-25c9-4668-8b8a-
15a005d270ef@s21g2000prm.googlegroups.com:

> By "good reception" I mean "easy to hear caller", "no warbelling or
> cutting out" usually means good "bars" indicated but not always, and
> quality of incoming call does not vary with elevation of phone, or
> indoors or outdoors. Anything less than all of those qualities all at
> once is, in my opinion and experience, something less than "good"
> reception. I don't experience "good reception" as a matter of
> "perception". It either is or it isn't.
>

I'm sorry but they've turned off that system to increase profits. It was
called AMPS and used analog FM radio technology, the same technology as
your car radio's clear, ungarbled music stations...(except rap).

Digital cellphones are never going to sound great. The sample rates are
only 8 or 11 Khz to increase the number of users they can jam on a single
channel in whatever digital scheme the company uses. The lovers will
piss on me for talking AMPS, but just listen to any music on hold on a
digital phone and it sounds like someone pissing in a paint can. Music
on hold on an AMPS phone sounded just like it does on your wired
landline...

The warbelling and cutting out are caused by the codec crashing on bad
data as multipath interference caused by your UHF signal bounces off
buildings and other metal objects, even that jet landing overhead,
sending the error correction scheme of the technology into overrun. On
the old AMPS phone, it sounded like the signal faded when the reflected
signal cancelled the direct signal, you moved a few inches and the direct
signal to reflected signal ratio improved. On digital, it just
dies....dropping the call if it can't recover quickly.

Digital was never a good thing in marginal conditions. Wait until those
car TV viewers find out ATSC, their new digital TV scheme, DOESN'T
support a moving vehicle. It locks the picture as soon as you start
moving and it never comes back until you stop and it can resync the
data....even right by the megawatt transmitter tower!