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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • Those antennas might not be what you want. I’m on the 9th floor and used a plastic RAK dipole antenna with great reception catching nodes 15km away in urban environment. I then tried a couple of high gain antennas to see if I’d get better reception. The signal got worse. I was only able to connect to the closest, strongest nodes. Many of the further ones wouldn’t connect at all. It seems like the signal shape that the higher gain created made it more difficult to reach nodes that aren’t on the same height. If you haven’t thought of that, think about it, and either way test with regular 2dBi dipole.







  • It’ll probably work. I’d definitely setup a mesh if I lived on a farm. I put up a node on my balcony, 9th floor suburban environment, and people seem to be using it. I got some direct connections from 15km away. There’s also a guy 60km away across lake Ontario that’s connecting to my balcony node, but I’m sure he’s got a special antenna, likely directional.