My job requires me to be contactable via mobile on the occasional weekend but, of course, I'd prefer to be on the bay. To make things worse, I have to answer when it rings, not half an hour later.
I've only had a handful of trips across the bay to date (Manly, Moreton & Peel) and noticed coverage wavered in a few spots along the way. I've checked the Telstra coverage maps, which indicate 3g works in a lot of areas 4g doesn't. Irrespective, there seems to be a few poor or no coverage areas.
Appreciate most people probably enjoy throwing the phone in the nav desk draw, but I am keen to hear people's experience not only of coverage during their journey, but in anchorages as well.
I've looked at those two-part signal boosters, which boost a signal from weak to strong, but you need a half decent signal to start with.
And I've researched aerials, which will reach out and find a weak signal and bring it back, so to speak.
Would love to hear people's solutions for aerials, especially the dB of the aerial. And lastly, I run three different apple mobile devices (don't ask, it has to be that way) but the only phone caddies I have seen (the caddy connects the aerial to the phone) are specific to each model phone. That would mean three caddies, which is ridiculous.
Yes, I can also get a Telstra 'Tough' phone, which has an aerial plug, to avoid the caddy mess, but then I'd be running four devices!
Look forward to your responses.
regards Pete
I've never had a problem getting phone reception through-out the bay, I can't recall a spot where I haven't been to make a call. Certainly all the major anchorages have reception.
Never had a problem in the bay from the Sunshine Coast to the Gold Coast on a standard I phone.
