Thanks! I opened Meshmap and see zero nodes in my area, which is sad. It’s possible any few around here just have no GPS capabilities. We’ll see, I have hardware on order now.

Yeah I’ll do that to start with and see what’s available. I live in a very small city and I would be flabberghasted if there’s even more than one node operating anywhere in the area. Thanks!

So for the most part, I would just choose a freq/mod setting and then see how many local nodes (if any) are visible to mine? And probably settle on the one with the most total nodes, and then I’m participating in that public mesh. Neat. That’s exactly what I want.

I’m guessing a node working on LongFast or equiv. would not be able to talk to a node on ShortTurbo or something like that. With the tradeoff being signal quality vs total network transmission speed.

The issue with capacitors for energy storage is because they depend on stored electric potential charge and not a chemical reaction, their voltage/discharge curve is linear, rather than flat with a deep drop at the end. For electronics that depend on consistent voltage thats bad, and it really needs a buck-boost circuit to balance the output voltage. And even then, the bottom 30% or so of a capacitor is not usable as the voltage will become too low for the current required.