We are currently getting latency issues with phone and data drop-outs. We think this may be as a result of the vegetation which has grown up in front of the satellite link dish. It is aimed low to the horizon and was always going through tree canopies but now going through a thick layer of wattle as well. We have contacted Telstra.
We wish to thank all the people who worked towards getting our mobile phone cell installed. Particular thanks right now needs to go to Kelli from our local Federal MP’s office who has been involved for quite a while and helped out a number of times.
Something, however, is not quite right….. the main historic part of town with the campgrounds and accommodation is only a short distance away from the tower but the reception is extremely poor..
The photo below shows the existing microwave tower at Yerranderie. Right up the top on the right is where they installed the new mobile phone cell aerial. Down the bottom is the massive new 30 panel solar cell array and heaps of battery capacity. In the bottom right is the uplink-downlink satellite dish.
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Just 970 metres away in downtown Yerranderie, the reception is either one bar or nothing out in the open and mostly no reception at all inside the buildings. This includes the Caretaker-Manager’s residence and it is concerning that he may not be contactable in an emergency if he is inside one of the buildings.
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….and here are the technical readings out in the open at the campground.
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If the low power and transmission distance is not a fault, maybe we have either a Picocell or Microcell installed. If this is the case it has been an extraordinary lost opportunity to “fill in” a massive black reception hole in the Southern Blue Mountains.
