Talk:Narrabri

Etymology

 * The name of the town comes from an Aboriginal Australian word meaning forked rivers.

If this is from the Kamilaroi language (and it looks like it is), that probably isn't its meaning. -bri comes from a suffix meaning "having". So it's "having narra" or "narra-ful", whatever narra means. --Ptcamn 13:59, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

RE: Cell Phone Tower

 * Not sure where the current article content (2006/08/17) evolved from but it seems confused to me. The tower near the post office is quite small, as far as towers go, and it's coverage is quite limited. Also it is not the only one for a large distance. The tower at Wee Waa has a larger GSM cell than the Narrabri Post Office tower. However the tower on Mt Dowe (Mt Kaputar) is indeed one of the larget towers in Australia, at 620 feet tall. It also provides great CDMA coverage. Have these two towers been confused? Thanks.


 * Good point, I tend to think that the GSM and CDMA coverage has been confused. This confusion has been further added to by the advent of the Next G network from the tower on Mt Dowe.


 * I suspect that's been confused somewhat. The town tower ONLY covers the township for Telstra. Optus has gear on a silo in the west (not sure where Vodafone have gear, but I doubt Telstra share much). I'm about to change it to be more accurate, but I would like someone to proof read and edit my wording later. Supertin (talk) 11:42, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * You know what... I'm just cutting the paragraph for now. It doesn't seem relavent anyway. Mobile phone coverage doesn't seem that important these days (you really only need to mention when there isn't anywa :p). Original text is: "Narrabri's mobile phone tower, situated behind the Post Office, services a large area, and can be seen for quite some distance. This is due to its height (being one of the tallest in Australia) and the flattness of the surrounding landscape." Supertin (talk) 11:45, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Transport
Should the transport section be changed? QANTAS no longer services Narrabri. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.184.255.182 (talk) 01:37, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 01:07, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

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Coal Seam Gas Project
IMHO this should be removed from the lede and placed in a named section. More importantly it needs a reliable reference. Downsize43 (talk) 05:35, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Map?
I wonder if we could fix the map up? It seems to have pointed to some random ocean since September 2018. I'd have a go if I felt confident to do so without spending a lot of time on it. Nickm57 (talk) 05:32, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I've fixed it so it shows the old style dot map. This may not be the best solution but the best I can do. Kerry (talk) 20:45, 1 September 2019 (UTC)