iDEN towers out of tune?

[turbovectorz]

The other day when I was doing an RF survey for my little iDEN EBTS tracking project, I noticed that a couple of transmitters are not exactly on the designated Hex frequencies. For example, if you look in your iDEN handset diagnostic mode, you should see a Hex code like 2AC which is 684 in decimal or 859.5500 MHz for the PCCH forward frequency. When I look in the spectrum analyzer, I noticed that the "M16-QAM" modulated signal is about +200KHz off the suppressed carrier frequency! I am just wondering if someone out there encountered this before. I think either the PA is going out of whack and/or the switch operators/technical personnel must have programmed it wrong. Anyone ideas?

[MTS2000des]

well being that Sprint is treating Nextel like a red-headed stepchild, not surprising. They turned over the maintenance and management of both it's iDEN and CDMA network to Ericsson, so yeah, what a surprise- their BTS may be off and the swedes haven't got around to fixing it.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/0 ... csson.html

I've had tickets open with L2 support at Sprint since June on two iDEN sites near me that aren't working well. It's still not fixed. And they wonder why 6 million users dumped iDEN?