Phone reception - Nullabour
Submitted: Thursday, Oct 06, 2011 at 19:03
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Livin On The Road
We are about to go across the Nullabour, and were wondering at which town we'd lose phone reception, and then get it back again? We have "Blue Tick" next G telstra phones ... not that it seems to get us much.
Reply By: landseka - Thursday, Oct 06, 2011 at 19:26
Thursday, Oct 06, 2011 at 19:26
You will lose reception just out of
Norseman WA and will get it back shortly before
Ceduna SA.
You will briefly have reception at
Eucla (Border Village) and not much more.
A little OT but try to get your fuel at
Eucla (not Border Village) or
Mundrabilla if you are budgeting.
Cheers Neil
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Follow Up By: Member - Rod N (QLD) - Thursday, Oct 06, 2011 at 19:28
Thursday, Oct 06, 2011 at 19:28
Also reception around Nullabor road house.
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Follow Up By: Happy Frank - Thursday, Oct 06, 2011 at 19:31
Thursday, Oct 06, 2011 at 19:31
Site Link
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Follow Up By: Member - Leigh (Vic) - Thursday, Oct 06, 2011 at 19:33
Thursday, Oct 06, 2011 at 19:33
Good reception around
Yalata also
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Follow Up By: Zebra400 - Saturday, Oct 08, 2011 at 05:47
Saturday, Oct 08, 2011 at 05:47
You can download a waypoint file from
here.
The file is very large, and therefore will not load all the waypoints. What I do is load a map say of WA or SA), then load visible waypoints.
With this file, you will see there are Tesltra towers across the Nullarbor at
Norseman,
Eucla, Nullarbor,
Yalata,
Penong &
Ceduna.
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Follow Up By: Zebra400 - Saturday, Oct 08, 2011 at 05:49
Saturday, Oct 08, 2011 at 05:49
I am half asleep. My comments were related to loading the waypoints into OziExplorer.
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Reply By: Rod W - Thursday, Oct 06, 2011 at 22:44
Thursday, Oct 06, 2011 at 22:44
Bugger we've lost reception what will we do?
What did we do before mobile phones... we got on with our lives and lived. Don't worry about the silly thing it'll still be there when you come out the outside... from both directions.
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Follow Up By: gordon_adel - Friday, Oct 07, 2011 at 14:52
Friday, Oct 07, 2011 at 14:52
Yep,
Leave my phone at home when we go out. Losing touch with all the news headlines and everything else is part of the reason we go out.
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Follow Up By: vk1dx - Saturday, Oct 08, 2011 at 08:46
Saturday, Oct 08, 2011 at 08:46
Too true Rod.
It's like an addiction. I am always amazed at the actions when passengers are getting off the planes. Beats me how some people even sleep.
I leave my mobile in the drawer next to the bed. It's been there for years.
Phil
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Reply By: Member - John and Lynne - Friday, Oct 07, 2011 at 09:19
Friday, Oct 07, 2011 at 09:19
One of the best things about our slow trip across the Nullarbour (found some great
camp spots) was the lack of telephone reception. The world got on quite
well without our input and family problems were all solved by the time we found out about them! It was amazing how unnecessary the phone was! Next trip we will take even longer to get to
Norseman! Lynne
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Reply By: snoopyone - Friday, Oct 07, 2011 at 09:20
Friday, Oct 07, 2011 at 09:20
Will be enough traffic that if you get problems you wont have to wait too long.
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Reply By: Member - blackbird1937 - Friday, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:59
Friday, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:59
The best part of riding a m/bike on my own across the Nullabor was I did not have to ring anyone . When I was
young there were hardly any phones and it did not worry us . The sun still rose in the morning , Mum still cooked for us .
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Reply By: Member - Joe n Mel n kids (FNQ - Friday, Oct 07, 2011 at 22:15
Friday, Oct 07, 2011 at 22:15
we have just crossed it and i could not believe how much reception we could get ....... it is far from remote now, zillions of cars and trucks and mobile coverage at some sites, not a great deal different to driving down a freeway ..
Cheers
Joe
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