please report your SPCS CDMA channel(s)...

Hello everyone...

After about a six week respite, traveling & moving to a new home, I am
back, once again ensconced in the alt.cellular family.

I am in the process of updating my Sprint PCS spectrum license
database to also include deployed CDMA channels & infrastructure
vendors per each SPCS MTA.

http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/spcs.html

Through my research, I have been successful in tracking down the
infrastructure vendor utilized in each MTA. But I could greatly use
some grassroots assistance in databasing the currently known deployed
CDMA channel(s) in each SPCS license. I can only personally speak to
the CDMA channel deployments in my home market, as well as those
additional markets that I have visited recently. So, if you have
access to the field test screen on your handset, I would be most
grateful if you could report to the group (or to me), in reference to
your location(s), the CDMA channel(s) upon which your handset idles,
as well as any other CDMA channel(s) to which you have been assigned a
traffic channel.

Thanks...

Andrew
--
Andrew Shepherd
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/

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"Andrew Shepherd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello everyone...
>
> After about a six week respite, traveling & moving to a new home, I am
> back, once again ensconced in the alt.cellular family.
>
> I am in the process of updating my Sprint PCS spectrum license
> database to also include deployed CDMA channels & infrastructure
> vendors per each SPCS MTA.
>
> http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/spcs.html
>
> Through my research, I have been successful in tracking down the
> infrastructure vendor utilized in each MTA. But I could greatly use
> some grassroots assistance in databasing the currently known deployed
> CDMA channel(s) in each SPCS license. I can only personally speak to
> the CDMA channel deployments in my home market, as well as those
> additional markets that I have visited recently. So, if you have
> access to the field test screen on your handset, I would be most
> grateful if you could report to the group (or to me), in reference to
> your location(s), the CDMA channel(s) upon which your handset idles,
> as well as any other CDMA channel(s) to which you have been assigned a
> traffic channel.
>
> Thanks...
>
> Andrew

WB Andrew ... The problem with this request is that only the hard core users
would know who to get into the appropriate screens on the phones. Even then,
there are those of us, like yours truly, who have forgotten how to get into
the screens as we don't GAS ... . If someone wants to post the
instructions on a 5300, I'll check it out.

Bob

Your knowledge is way above mine, :exactly which item do you need from a
4900--and you may want to let some folks know the code to get there, the
##786 thing on sanyo's etc

[email protected] (Andrew Shepherd) wrote in article
<[email protected]>:
> Hello everyone...
>
> After about a six week respite, traveling & moving to a new home, I am
> back, once again ensconced in the alt.cellular family.
>
> I am in the process of updating my Sprint PCS spectrum license
> database to also include deployed CDMA channels & infrastructure
> vendors per each SPCS MTA.
>
> http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/spcs.html
>
> Through my research, I have been successful in tracking down the
> infrastructure vendor utilized in each MTA. But I could greatly use
> some grassroots assistance in databasing the currently known deployed
> CDMA channel(s) in each SPCS license. I can only personally speak to
> the CDMA channel deployments in my home market, as well as those
> additional markets that I have visited recently. So, if you have
> access to the field test screen on your handset, I would be most
> grateful if you could report to the group (or to me), in reference to
> your location(s), the CDMA channel(s) upon which your handset idles,
> as well as any other CDMA channel(s) to which you have been assigned a
> traffic channel.
>
> Thanks...
>
> Andrew
> --
> Andrew Shepherd
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/

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You want to know the what from the where so you dijjiframus the database? I
always thought I was a little more clever than the average bear, but all I
have to do is go to a newsgroup to realize that all I really know is enter
number press send...


"Andrew Shepherd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello everyone...
>
> After about a six week respite, traveling & moving to a new home, I am
> back, once again ensconced in the alt.cellular family.
>
> I am in the process of updating my Sprint PCS spectrum license
> database to also include deployed CDMA channels & infrastructure
> vendors per each SPCS MTA.
>
> http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/spcs.html
>
> Through my research, I have been successful in tracking down the
> infrastructure vendor utilized in each MTA. But I could greatly use
> some grassroots assistance in databasing the currently known deployed
> CDMA channel(s) in each SPCS license. I can only personally speak to
> the CDMA channel deployments in my home market, as well as those
> additional markets that I have visited recently. So, if you have
> access to the field test screen on your handset, I would be most
> grateful if you could report to the group (or to me), in reference to
> your location(s), the CDMA channel(s) upon which your handset idles,
> as well as any other CDMA channel(s) to which you have been assigned a
> traffic channel.
>
> Thanks...
>
> Andrew
> --
> Andrew Shepherd
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/

My SPCS phone idles on channel 500 in my home. I also remember seeing it
on channel 450 in the past. I am in Toledo, Ohio.

-Trent

[email protected] (Andrew Shepherd) wrote in article
<[email protected]>:
> Hello everyone...
>
> After about a six week respite, traveling & moving to a new home, I am
> back, once again ensconced in the alt.cellular family.
>
> I am in the process of updating my Sprint PCS spectrum license
> database to also include deployed CDMA channels & infrastructure
> vendors per each SPCS MTA.
>
> http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/spcs.html
>
> Through my research, I have been successful in tracking down the
> infrastructure vendor utilized in each MTA. But I could greatly use
> some grassroots assistance in databasing the currently known deployed
> CDMA channel(s) in each SPCS license. I can only personally speak to
> the CDMA channel deployments in my home market, as well as those
> additional markets that I have visited recently. So, if you have
> access to the field test screen on your handset, I would be most
> grateful if you could report to the group (or to me), in reference to
> your location(s), the CDMA channel(s) upon which your handset idles,
> as well as any other CDMA channel(s) to which you have been assigned a
> traffic channel.
>
> Thanks...
>
> Andrew
> --
> Andrew Shepherd
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/

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Boston, MA (SID 4106) uses channel 650 in most areas, with channel 600
overlaid in high demand areas (eg. Cambridge).

-E

CH: 0500 at N32 44' 59.9" W97 37' 0.30". That is in the South part of
Mesquite, TX.

--
Posted at SprintUsers.com - Your place for everything Sprint PCS
Free wireless access @ www.SprintUsers.com/wap

Channel 0375 idling at home in a northwestern suburb of Columbus, Ohio.
---JRC---

"Andrew Shepherd" <[email protected]> wrote in message =
news:[email protected]...
> Hello everyone...
>=20
>=20
> Andrew
>

"Bob Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>
> WB Andrew ...

Thanks, Bob. Anybody volunteer to catch me up on what I missed in the
alt.cellular universe since the first of August???

> The problem with this request is that only the hard core users
> would know who to get into the appropriate screens on the phones. Even then,
> there are those of us, like yours truly, who have forgotten how to get into
> the screens as we don't GAS ... . If someone wants to post the
> instructions on a 5300, I'll check it out.

That does indeed sound like a quite reasonable request, one that I am
more than happy to oblige, particularly if it will help other Sprint
PCS users assist me in my research.

Disclaimer: Should you find yourself stuck in the field test screen,
typically repeating the appropriate key sequence above will allow you
to reverse the process. Or just power-cycle your handset.

Presumably the majority of alt.cellular.sprintpcs readers have
late-model Samsung or Sanyo handsets, as both dominate the current
SPCS handset line-up, so accessing the field test screen can be
readily accomplished w/ the following tried & true sequence:

1. ##040793
2. Menu/OK
3. Save Phone#
4. Field Test Screen

For Sanyo 4900, 5300, & 8100 handsets, there is also another debug
sequence:

1. ##768
2. OK
3. Save Phone#
4. Field Test Screen

For the Samsung A620/VGA1000, the following is the sequence:

1. Menu/OK
2. 8
3. 1
4. 0
5. 040793
6. Field Test Screen

For the Samsung A500, presumably other late-model Samsungs as well,
there is yet another variation on the sequence:

1. Menu/OK
2. 0
3. 1
4. 0
5. 040793
6. Field Test Screen

For the Samsung N200, possibly other similar vintage Samsungs, the
following is the variation on the sequence:

1. Menu/OK
2. 8
3. 0
4. 040793
5. Field Test Screen

For the Samsung 3500, perhaps the 8500, 4000, & 4500, too, the
following is yet again another slight variation on the sequence:

1. Menu/OK
2. 9
3. 0
4. 040793
5. Field Test Screen

Once the field test screen is enabled, you should be presented w/ an
array of signal diagnostics, including potentially PN offset, RSSI,
Ec/Io, slot cycle index, paging channel Walsh code, SID, NID, et al.
All of the above interest me, but only the CDMA channel(s) is of
primary importance at the moment. So, last but not least, the current
CDMA channel upon which your mobile is camped should also be displayed
on the field test screen.

As a tutorial to locating the current CDMA channel, for CDMA 1900 in
general, it will always be a number that is a multiple of 25. For
Sprint PCS in particular, as no PCS F or PCS C licenses enter the
equation, the CDMA channel(s) will always be in the range from PCS
0025 - PCS 0775. As typically deployed w/in that range of channels,
PCS 0300, PCS 0400, & PCS 0700 are off-limits, only provisional
channel assignments between the PCS A & PCS D, the PCS D & PCS B, or
the PCS B & PCS E licenses, respectively.

But, for those of you who live in the likes of Champaign-Urbana,
Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh-Durham, Fayetteville-Lumberton,
Atlanta, Athens, Sarasota-Bradenton, Bryan-College Station, Cleveland,
Akron, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Albuquerque,
Farmington-Durango, Santa Fe, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, those
provisional channel assignments are valid for Sprint PCS. If anyone
observes PCS 0300, PCS 0400, or PCS 0700, especially do report it to
me.

Looking forward to reports of any & all SPCS CDMA channel deployments
around the country. Thanks everyone...

Andrew
--
Andrew Shepherd
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/

"Bob Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>
> If someone wants to post the
> instructions on a 5300, I'll check it out.

Bob...

The Sanyo 5300 field test instructions are duly included in a previous
post.

And, if I recall correctly, you are located in Charlotte. For the
Charlotte-Gastonia, NC BTA074, Sprint PCS won at auction the PCS D 10
MHz license plus acquired in a spectrum swap the PCS A5 10 MHz
disaggregation from AT&TWS' PCS A 30 MHz license. Therefore, you
should be looking for SPCS CDMA carrier deployments in the range of
PCS 0225 - PCS 0375, a total of seven possible CDMA channels.

For Trenton Westbrook...

Toledo is a component BTA of the Detroit MTA005 for which SPCS holds
the PCS B 30 MHz license. The 11 valid PCS B channel assignments
range from PCS 0425 - PCS 0675. So, you are right on target w/ PCS
0500 & PCS 0450. Thanks!

For ISG...

Mesquite, a suburb of Dallas, is in the Dallas-Ft. Worth MTA007 for
which SPCS also possesses the PCS B 30 MHz license. Valid channels
are identical to the above. So, you, too, are on the money w/ PCS
0500. Thanks!

For Eric...

The Boston-Providence MTA008 is yet another PCS B 30 MHz license for
SPCS. Thus, PCS 0650 & PCS 0600 are precisely w/in the upper range of
the 11 possible channels in the PCS B license. Thanks!

For John R. Copeland...

SPCS has no PCS A or PCS B MTA-wide license in the Columbus MTA038.
AT&TWS & Aerial outbid SPCS for those licenses at FCC Auction 4.
Instead, SPCS has a complete collection of PCS D 10 MHz & PCS E 10 MHz
licenses in each of the five BTAs that comprise the Columbus MTA.
Valid channel deployments for the PCS D license include PCS 0325 - PCS
0375. Valid channels for the PCS E license include PCS 0725 - PCS
0775. Such is an example of interrupted spectrum, whereby SPCS has 20
MHz of total bandwidth in two separate non-contiguous 10 MHz blocks.
Anyway, you hit the nail on the head w/ PCS 0375. Thanks!

Keep the reports coming...

Andrew
--
Andrew Shepherd
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/

Knoxville tn ch 0350--- syscode is 4694--I would liek to see alist of
system codes included---I hope this is what you need.

And could you advise what use this info will be?? curious??

[email protected] (Andrew Shepherd) wrote in article
<[email protected]>:
> Hello everyone...
>
> After about a six week respite, traveling & moving to a new home, I am
> back, once again ensconced in the alt.cellular family.
>
> I am in the process of updating my Sprint PCS spectrum license
> database to also include deployed CDMA channels & infrastructure
> vendors per each SPCS MTA.
>
> http://people.ku.edu/~cinema/wireless/spcs.html
>
> Through my research, I have been successful in tracking down the
> infrastructure vendor utilized in each MTA. But I could greatly use
> some grassroots assistance in databasing the currently known deployed
> CDMA channel(s) in each SPCS license. I can only personally speak to
> the CDMA channel deployments in my home market, as well as those
> additional markets that I have visited recently. So, if you have
> access to the field test screen on your handset, I would be most
> grateful if you could report to the group (or to me), in reference to
> your location(s), the CDMA channel(s) upon which your handset idles,
> as well as any other CDMA channel(s) to which you have been assigned a
> traffic channel.
>
> Thanks...
>
> Andrew
> --
> Andrew Shepherd
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/

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Andrew -

Here in the San Francisco area (SID 4183) I've seen my phones on CH 50,
75, and 100.

The Samsung A460 uses the same key sequence as the 3500:
Menu-9-0-040793-1

I've looked at Field Test mode in several other metro areas, but never
realized the future importance of recording the channels. Sorry. Next
time I'll know better.

--
Frank Harris in San Francisco with an A460

do the field channel change in different markets--is this like the old
paging channel?

Frank Harris <[email protected]> wrote in article
<[email protected]>:
> Andrew -
>
> Here in the San Francisco area (SID 4183) I've seen my phones on CH 50,
> 75, and 100.
>
> The Samsung A460 uses the same key sequence as the 3500:
> Menu-9-0-040793-1
>
> I've looked at Field Test mode in several other metro areas, but never
> realized the future importance of recording the channels. Sorry. Next
> time I'll know better.
>
> --
> Frank Harris in San Francisco with an A460
>

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"Andrew Shepherd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Looking forward to reports of any & all SPCS CDMA channel deployments
> around the country. Thanks everyone...
>
> Andrew
> --
> Andrew Shepherd
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> http://www.ku.edu/home/cinema/

Thanks for the reply Andrew ... For Charlotte, Ch. 0350.

Bob

[email protected] (Andrew Shepherd) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> I would be most
> grateful if you could report to the group (or to me), in reference to
> your location(s), the CDMA channel(s) upon which your handset idles,
> as well as any other CDMA channel(s) to which you have been assigned a
> traffic channel.

My trusty dual-band touchpoint tells me that at work in New Haven, CT
I'm on SID 4162 at channel 0625.

Other touchpoint users -- dial ##DEBUG (##33284), then select Save,
then Service Scrn.