Re: email contacts

On Tuesday, in article <geNHNMownNoEFwf9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wookie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "John Beardmore" wrote:

In message <iNGXL2OxNNoEFwed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Oz
<Oz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Jim Webster <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

one of our problems is that we don't get mobile phone reception here anyway,

strangely not here either.
>
Although there is reception in the yard and upstairs.

Seems to be true of a lot of farms I visit.

We sort of get reception, but only in half the house !

Used to live 5 or 6 miles from three different phone masts, and if you
were out of the village you could often have line-of-sight to all three.
But buildings, and especially modern steel-clad farm buildings, made a
lot of difference.

The mobile phone companies don't seem to bother with maps of coverage so
much as they did. I think, for a lot of the country, there'd need to be
impractical levels of detail now. I remember that, when I first bought a
mobile phone, the local coverage did depend a lot on which company you
signed up with, not that the salesmen seemed to realise that, as a
farmer, I needed some quite specific info, that didn't map well to
postcodes.



--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

"I am Number Two," said Penfold. "You are Number Six."
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Where can I purchase Census CDs?
    ... > page - there's quite a few smaller farms that disappeared at the end of the ... the enormous 6 inches to the mile sheets for Coldingham (1855-1857: ... floor of maps (it's a big parish and covers many 6 inches to the mile ...
    (soc.genealogy.britain)
  • Re: Where can I purchase Census CDs?
    ... > As you go further back in time the variety and quality of ... > sources drops (few early maps, parish registers running out etc.) but ... Last evening I decided to make a start on the "extinct farms" for my web ...
    (soc.genealogy.britain)
  • Re: Waterdavian Economics...
    ... >The pop of WD is 1.3 million, not 130,000, according to the FR Campaign ... >I have seen no maps which show any farms or farming communities ... Prev by Date: ...
    (rec.games.frp.dnd)