RAIL NETWORK IN TATTERS

 Hello and Welcome Back... Listening to the news that the Telstra outage has affected the ARTC Rail Network that uses 4G signals. 

What a joke.

There was nothing wrong with the 400mhz rail network (450.050Mhz) that never had frobems during the 80s, 90s, and beyond but no, millions of dollars had to be spent on putting a mobile type network based on mobile phone infrastructure with a comms pole every 1km required.

I enjoyed listening to the rail network when my dad was a train driver based at Campbelltown, NSW and would hear his radio go off in the middle of the night because he forgot to switch it off. 

I could also pick it up on my scanner, but no more, as for some reason, it had to go on a crappy phone network for comms.. 

I weep for the future.. 

Rant over..