Telstra towers

Coverage map is not applicable as I wish to pinpoint the tower.

I am fairly certain this link is the same as mine. Mine is up on the mast atm so can't photo it.

I'm locked on a tower 53km away with strong internet and am able to stream on demand TV. Using a Nighthawk M6 router.

https://www.telcoantennas.com.au/rfi-wide-band-mimo-3g-4g-5g-panel-antenna-700-3800

Thanks for the link, Bungarra. Have dealt with Telco a couple of times, they’re a good mob.

Looks like Racey has the goods.

Bob

In my experience that app needs a signal to work. I assume that's the app that the OP referred to. Unless I'm missing something, I'm not sure how you would use it to align a directional antenna, until you were getting close and started to get a signal.

Thanks, but as I stated in my post I have an app (that one actually) but it needs a signal to work.

What I'm seeking is the ability to see the physical locations on a topo map.

Them when I'm offline out in the sticks I can get a bearing from my location to the appropriate tower and see if I can pick it up

Perfect thanks! Exactly what I need to plot and locate as waypoints prior to heading out.

That site contains the entire ACMA licensed services database. You need to narrow it down to just get the Telstra services. Click on the hamburger icon on the top LH corner, then drop down the "Filter Sites By Site Assignments/Licences" selection, under the "With Clients where," drop down select "Licensee" and add "TELSTRA LIMITED" to the RH box. You will still get all the Telstra licences (microwave links, base stations and rural telephone services) as well as the phone towers. If you do that you will get rid of all the other phone towers and licensed services. It will make a slow responding database to load much quicker.

You could try RFNSA for cellphone network base stations, saves beating the ACMA database into shape.

Thanks. What a great resource. Shows Telstra, Optus & NBN.

We recently had NBN reconnected, involving a replacement antenna on the roof. The tech installing told me the tower wasn't too far away. Now I know it is 1.3kms & it's location.

Hi Cuppa,

I did not know NBN required an antenna, I thought it was a fibre optic cable connection. What does the antenna connect to?

Macca.

Macca, in some sparse outlying areas the NBN may decide that it is too expensive to provide the optic cables to the FTTN nodes or FTTP and they provide their services by wireless. They use spectrum in the same region as the mobile services and similar modems.

As Peter said. A bit more info here.

https://www.nbnco.com.au/learn/network-technology/fixed-wireless-explained

It is the only type of NBN we have had in Victoria. Up north we had NBN via Satellite in several locations. Have never experienced FTTN or FTTP.

The only fibre optic we had was directly from a fixed wireless tower to our living room when we had a Fixed Wireless tower on our property & a line of trees prevented us from getting a reliable signal even though it was only about 600metres from the house.

At that time we were the first people in Victoria (possibly in Australia) to have fibre to the living room! (Albeit at at the max speed possible from fixed wireless).

It was pretty good, unlimited the ISP paid us rather than us paying them!