Contractor to NBN has been this morning and installed a prototype InDoor Unit (IDU).
To go back a few weeks. We had a technician contracted to NBN Co who came out on 17 September and replaced the OutDoor Unit (ODU) which is like an antenna. Apparently it had an AM blocker on it. This made no difference. We still had the radio interference on the Local ABC Radio station on 1044 from Bridgetown.
A couple of weeks later on 1 October we had the same technician come back and install a new InDoor Unit (IDU). This improved the radio reception a little such that we could just make out what was said but there was still a lot of background noise which made listening uncomfortable. I refused to sign off to the effect that the problem was fixed even though the technician said it was.
I was given the name of a person in NBN Co who rang me on 7 October. This person told me that there were two other instances of this interference happening in Australia and they were developing a prototype IDU that should stop the interference with the AM radio. NBN were making 60 of these and only expected to use about 30 in Australia.
A local NBN contractor came today and replaced the IDU with a prototype IDU, but this made no difference. He then changed the ODU, but this made it worse. He was in touch with Ericsson techicians who are the main contractors for supplying the fixed wireless broadband. This was then changed back to what we had on the roof at the start of today. Interference was less but still poor reception.
Then the prototype IDU was replaced with the one that had been on this morning first up and it was about the same.
Thus weeks on and we are still not receiving reasonable AM radio reception (unless we turn off the NBN which rather defeats the purpose).
I'm over NBN Fixed Wireless Broadband. In itself in works well but by interfering with radio reception it means that we are without radio and its emergency messages.
With the bushfire season upon us. We need a remedy. Fast!
As I said on 21 July, NBN stole my radio or as good as. I want it back and compensation for all the messing around that we have had to put up with.