Hello guys again!

I do understand how meshtastic works, that buildings, trees may cut the signals and the higher the better etc.
Yet, in my home, leaving my device l1 tracker pro at a specific place, gets lots of traffic, and I receive more messages than before. Since then I always leave it there. Now my question is, how come I can receive messages but not sent, especially when channel utility is 7 or even 10 percent? Do I miss something?

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    29 days ago

    There is likely someone with a higher power repeater (think RAK 1-watt kit) or much higher gain antenna running a node somewhere nearby. With a better transmitter, there is enough wireless link budget to receive such a strong signal at your location, but the puny 25mW@2dBi from your handheld cannot be heard out through the trees and walls.

    Look into getting a roof top node set to CLIENT_BASE.

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      29 days ago

      Thanks for your answer! Yea they told me about the client_base, planing to do it in couple months.

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        28 days ago

        Here’s a graph that help explains how LoRa Link Budget works with antennas and transmitters. You can see how a weaker radio might be able to hear a stronger radio in one direction, but the strong can’t hear the weak in the other based off their EIRP.