Us 2 mackinaw to Kalispell
Hello everyone. I’m planning a glacier trip and will be taking southerly route from ne Ohio to Kalispell and have planned stops. Should be good. I was talking about trip to friend and he said go throu...
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Matt_Colie wrote:
2- Believe them about limited (nearly non-existent) cell service.
This means that if you are using a smartphone for navigation and you have not preloaded the areas, you will have GOTZ.
Matt
pianotuna wrote:
Hi Matt,
What is GOTZ?
If you have a Canadian cell phone there is a usable signal without a booster from Sault St Marie to Williston (and probably farther--I just have not driven that portion).
Piano,
GOTZ is what you have when you if you have less than 1 bar....
Admittedly, we were not on RT2. We also do not have a Canadian phone. (Though they try to bill us for Canada when we are downriver - south of Detroit.)
We were tracking the south shore of Superior on the way to the International Garden from Whitefish Point. Even with a 3erp repeater and a good antenna on the roof, we still were out of coverage for a considerable time. In my log, I wrote that it was so bad I was worried that we might loose GPS coverage. Not all of this country as urban cell coverage.
Matt
