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Originally Posted by garrycol
Sometimes they can be country specific models? I've bought a model of an LG phone which had dual sims from Kogan and only 1 sim port in Australia...
Unless this is a diagnostic port and not an antenna port as labeled.
Mate. Keep your cash in your pocket on Sat phones and boosters..
Just SMS a trusted person when leaving a town, instruct them to send help if they don't hear from you within X time...
(Of course if you have a pre-existing health condition this may need adjusting)
Another good option... Will leave it in the "if i have spare time and money" jobs for now and focus on a CB.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
Good to know it does work though, thanks Ean. I've been to 3 shops, one of which had about 15 different types of antennas in stock, hoping to find someone who knew what was most suitable but nobody did...
Funny but I was looking at sat phones the other day and came across this one through Optus. I like the fact you can suspend the plan, when not travelling ,at no cost and you use an app on your smartphone to connect. Price is pretty reasonable.
Optus Thuraya SatSleeve
I've used Thuraya in north Africa and it worked well, so provided you don't need coverage in the Americas or S Africa its a good offer.
Cheers
Steve
If it's mostly hi-way wouldn't there be plenty of traffic therefore not really alone.
I imagine a booster would not give you complete coverage therefore you're still in the same vote.
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Originally Posted by Russrobe
Dick smith sold antennas that were CDMA band and all and sundry said they wouldn't work on 3G network , but all 200 boats in our fishery found that there was no signal loss on 3G compared to CDMA . Not sure if the antenna has been changed since, and most of us had Nokia phones as they were cheap and the patch leads to connect to the antennas were interchangable with the different model phones.
I am talking about 6-8 yrs ago but our boats still use the same set up just not sure on what phones they use now .
Cheers Ean
That's what we do although I am still uncertain if our 3 sons fit into the category of 'trusted person'? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
However if we had a pre-existing wealth condition I'd probably get a sat phone. :(
Coverage Map:
https://www.telstra.com.au/coverage-...broadband.html
That's for a standard antenna, for $190 I would expect one atleast twice the coverage as a basic antenna.
Now add a booster which is meant to increase that by 30x and I don't think you'd ever run out of mobile coverage.... In theory though, shame nobody on here has one to test it out.
Ean I think they turned off the CDMA network completely a few months ago along with 2G. They got a guy who still owned a 2G Nokia 3310 to come switch it off.
Yeh could be, but looks like they have a off the shelf antenna to suit the new network anyway . Once I get back to Darwin I will jump on 1 of the boats and see what set up we have. 2 yrs ago I drove from Broome to Darwin and was surprised at how much coverage there was on my iPhone with no outside antenna.Quote:
Originally Posted by Russrobe
I have s friend who drives a road train from Darwin to Perth, I will ask what set up he has in his truck .
Cheers Ean