"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message news:Xns9AC666762F0E7noonehomecom@208.49.80.253...
> 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!
>
BZZZZT - wrong again - more Larry's multipath BS....