[CQ-Contest] Hamvention - New Venue, etc.

[Gerry Hull]

Any flavor of smartphone can  do WiFi only.
The Zoiper softphone is free and runs of both IOS and Android, and does
both SIP and IAX protocols.
In fact, I lent one of my buddies from Canada a SIP account with a Dayton
phone number for use during the Hamvention.

As long as you have basic, decent Wifi, calling is cheap and easy.

73, Gerry W1VE

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:55 AM, K7LXC via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> >  Mobile phone providers have coverage maps that although  not perfect, do
> give some idea of coverage.  For example, at my WV QTH  neither T-Mobile
> nor
> Verizon covers the area.  But visitors using one or  the other of those
> carriers have had their devices work for a minute or two  intermittently --
> enough to alert them to a voicemail or to download some  email.  Then the
> signal is gone again, usually for hours until suddenly  their phone dings
> again with a message or something.   It's called  "propagation."  I'm not
> sure of the mode.
>
>     It might be due to ducting. W7ZR had a  place on the east coast of Baja
> (XE2DV) on the Sea of Cortez where the  cell coverage was very spotty but
> he had a yagi pointing north to AZ and  occasionally he'd have a connection
> due to ducting over the water. I think the  path eventually deteriorated
> and
> I think having no internet access was one  of the reasons he now lives in
> AZ.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve    K7LXC
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