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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by abakker on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:05PM (#31111290)
Can confirm. In general, Death Valley has no signal. However, when my wife and I biked from saline valley to racetrack valley up the Lippincott road, we kept finding little spots of reasonably strong cell signal - enough that we were able to wait here: 8584JCR4+6C and get enough signal to download a new audiobook.

Our whole time left in DV, we never found any other reliably strong signal.

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Re:A YouTuber purposely crashed his plane in California, FAA... by ghaff on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:32PM (#31111625)
As of a few years ago Furnace Creek had cell service (it didn't used to) but Death Valley as a whole doesn't have much coverage. You were presumably seeing a tower somewhere in the mountains west of Death Valley.
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