Australia AUSTRALIA - 4YO AUGUST (GUS) Missing from rural family home in Outback, Yunta, South Australia, 27th Sept 2025

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Not all grandparents are elderly and frail. My mother had me at 26 and I had my first child at 23. She was a grandmother at 49. Some women are still raising their own four year olds at that age!
Shannon’s parents were married in 1948, but I don’t know when she was born, or even if she’s an only child.
 
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Coverage is likely to be pretty sporadic. In relatively flat terrain, a phone can connect to a mast or tower at surprising distances as that distance largely depends on whether things such as hills are in the way or not. That's why sometimes a phone at the top of a mountain can connect with a mast 30 or 50 miles away. I would expect masts to follow roads, so reasonable coverage along much of the Barrier Highway but not necessarily on Oak Park Road as far as the farmstead. On the other hand, it's likely that at some point stations are so isolated that Starlink becomes essential (and short wave radio/ham radio for the old timers).
They may have a satellite phone, often used in remote areas
 
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They may have a satellite phone, often used in remote areas
As I understand it, Starlink is an affordable satellite phone system.
 

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