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"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 5/12/2011 10:18 PM, Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
>> http://chainreactionblogs.com/diary/2011/05/12/can-you-drive-that-fast-on-skyline-apparently-not/
>>
>> --Mike--     Chain Reaction Bicycles
>> www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
>
> I'm sure the guy's insurance company would love to have that video!
>
> No Verizon coverage, but Nextel coverage? Amazing. My wife's company 
> has to cover that area and when they had Nextel they never had 
> coverage up there, they all had to carry AT&T or Verizon phones. 
> Sometimes they had to call the resident to open a gate or call off a 
> dog, and Nextel had no coverage.
>
> One thing I've found is that my smart phone with no external antenna 
> will have no signal, while my old dumb phone with an external antenna 
> (which I've kept activated at $2.50/month) will get enough of a signal 
> to make a call. Just experienced that last Sunday again down in Muir 
> Woods.

I wasn't thinking as clearly as I should have; I'll bet I could have 
made a call if I'd disabled 3G. The phone the guy was using looked like 
one of those yellow "work phones" with PTT. I didn't ask if it was 
Sprint/Nextel, but not sure what else it could have been, since we had 
AT&T and Verizon covered by the rest of us.

In general, coverage on Skyline has improved by leaps and bounds in the 
past two years. They've been putting up a lot of poles (you can see 
several of them on 84 that have gone up in just the past 6 months).

> I have a vague memory of being on Skyline in the 1980's, pre-cell 
> phone, and having something similar happen, a crazy driver going by us 
> at high speed and later coming upon the car crashed on the side of the 
> road. Also near Skylonda. Seems like it's irresistible to drive 
> insanely fast on Skyline.

I've seen motorcycles come *close* to the speed this guy was going. The 
section was one of the longer straightaways, but he'd come off of a 
couple of bends. Funny thing, no tire squealing (when he was behind us), 
nor did we hear the sound of the crash, even though it was only a a 
thousand meters or so ahead. Of course, we're not listening for it; we 
were talking among ourselves about the guy's insane speed.

--Mike--     Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com