Talk:Narrabri, New South Wales
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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.
