I get excellent reception generally 5 bars, 4, rarely 3, in my house. Outside along soquel (walking to safeway for instance) I have a steady 4. I have excellent reception pretty much everywhere I go, although around encinal (industrial corner of SC) I have so so to poor reception (but not on the trails of Harvy West Park). In the suburbs up hill off of Soquel about 1.5 miles west of Cabrillo I have poor reception indoors at a coworkers (cant recall street.), but solid outside.

Good reception at and around Cabrillo College, average to below average outside. Poor if you're anywhere near the tall trees, which is pretty much all of Aptos.

Cingular service in Santa Cruz is absolutely the worst. Driving through the county, you get disconnected regularly, where other systems stay connected. Complaints go unanswered. Supposedlly, they bought AT&T, which has slightly better service in the area, but nothing has changed. Cingular should not even sell phones in the county.

I might get 1 bar in the corner of my room tucked away on a window sill and 1 or two out at the very end of my yard (if i'm lucky). Not a normal or reliant way to keep in contact.

A very sketchy reception area from Soquel Drive / Rio Del Mar Blvd to Ocean & South to La Selva & North 1/2 mile on Hwy 1, antenna appears to be below tree line and surrounded by tall Redwood trees and hillside. Neighbors against new antenna to increase coverage as of this date.