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  • During very busy months, there is no signal on the grounds

    From micky@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 5 21:04:21 2025
    Perhaps you folks have heard of First Monday, in Canton Texas, about 70
    miles ESE of Dalla. It's a big outdoor market for 4 days at the
    end/start of every month. Covers 450 acres.

    This is what it says in their publicity: "When traveling with a group,
    be sure to have a meeting place. Don�t rely on your cell phones. During
    very busy months, there is no signal on the grounds. Don�t count on
    calling them. Offices are only allowed to page for lost children and in
    medical emergencies."

    Depending on the time of year, up to 100,000 shoppers frequent the fair
    in a weekend

    Why would there be no signal at very busy times?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Monday_Trade_Days

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  • From MummyChunk@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 6 03:56:01 2025
    micky wrote:
    Perhaps you folks have heard of First Monday, in Canton Texas, about 70
    miles ESE of Dalla. It's a big outdoor market for 4 days at the
    end/start of every month. Covers 450 acres.

    This is what it says in their publicity: "When traveling with a group,
    be sure to have a meeting place. Dont rely on your cell phones. During
    very busy months, there is no signal on the grounds. Dont count on
    calling them. Offices are only allowed to page for lost children and in medical emergencies."

    Depending on the time of year, up to 100,000 shoppers frequent the fair
    in a weekend

    Why would there be no signal at very busy times?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Monday_Trade_Days



    Wonder if the sat links that are coming will result in this problem going
    away?


    This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=683287231#683287231

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to micky on Thu Feb 6 12:26:08 2025
    On 2025-02-06 03:04, micky wrote:
    Perhaps you folks have heard of First Monday, in Canton Texas, about 70 miles ESE of Dalla. It's a big outdoor market for 4 days at the
    end/start of every month. Covers 450 acres.

    Nope, I haven't heard of it :-)

    This is what it says in their publicity: "When traveling with a group,
    be sure to have a meeting place. Don’t rely on your cell phones. During very busy months, there is no signal on the grounds. Don’t count on
    calling them. Offices are only allowed to page for lost children and in medical emergencies."

    Depending on the time of year, up to 100,000 shoppers frequent the fair
    in a weekend

    Why would there be no signal at very busy times?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Monday_Trade_Days


    I guess they explain wrong. Rather saturated towers. I don't remember it happening to me, maybe the symptom on the phone is "no signal" or a busy
    tone. Maybe phones can not register with the existing towers.

    What I have seen done over here, on some outside events with thousands
    of people coming, is that the main mobile phone companies come and
    install a van with a portable tower, for extra coverage.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Anssi Saari@21:1/5 to micky on Thu Feb 6 13:36:25 2025
    micky <[email protected]> writes:

    Why would there be no signal at very busy times?

    Likely the local radio network just doesn't have the capacity to serve
    all the users. For the end user this looks like no signal.

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