The People’s Repeater is a cheap solar-powered LoRa mesh repeater you can build yourself using a $10 garden light and a small, 3D printed hub. In this video I walk through the design, do a range test, blast the repeater with pressurized water for an hour, and then show you how to build one step by step.
My goal is to get Meshcore and Meshtastic into actual neighborhoods, where ordinary people can build their own off-grid, encrypted text messaging infrastructure.
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The only thing I see missing from their build is a wrap of some kind of sealing tape on the SMA connector. Those bulkhead connectors are sealed to the housing they’re installed in but the threaded connection to the antenna is NOT sealed and will eventually corrode if/when moisture gets inside.
Slide heat shrink down the antenna lead then shrink after connection and testing.