Lots of strong natural fibers out there.

I think most are field maples, I’ve been using plantnet to get an idea of what’s growing out of the 100’s of saplings that come up on the hills in my yard. I’ll keep an eye out for sugar maples and keep any if they’re in a good place.

my brother just recommended pawpaw as to what local trees I should keep while I’m taking out the maples that grow like weeds.

People come and go, I’ve even picked up a couple nodes from above. In the states a lot of cities have a mqtt channel just add state and city to mqtt settings like;

msh/US/IN/Evansville

LoRa could have many applications on phones or anything with a radio.

If I’m not mistaken licensed operators have to run at less power on meshtastic. I’ll see if I can find where/why and update.

I was wrong:

"What is the benefit of using a ham license with Meshtastic? If you use your ham radio license with Meshtastic, consider both the privileges and restrictions:

Privileges Increased Transmit Power Up to 10W transmit power in the United States! 47 CFR 97.313(j) Higher Gain Antennas Restrictions Plain-Text Only On amateur radio bands, encryption is illegal. FCC Part 97.113.A.4 Lack of Privacy As a ham operator, it is a requirement that you identify yourself by your call sign periodically when transmitting. Your call sign will be publicly transmitted at least once every 10 minutes at minimum. FCC Part 97.119.A"

From https://meshtastic.org/docs/faq/#amateur-radio-ham

It depends on your location, 915mhz for the US.

All depends on the power that can put out, and the board requirements. Post an update if you decide to experiment.

Love to see it.

Yup on the green ones.

Looks like a few in Berlin are on msh/EU_868/2/map/ from

https://meshmap.app/?lat=52.530216577830124&lng=373.37997436523443&zoom=12

You have to make sure uplink and downlink are enabled in the settings on your long fast channel, then enable mqtt in the mqtt settings and turn on “proxy to client enabled”.

The main root topic in the mqtt settings is msh/US/ you should get plenty of nodes if you connect but if there are to many it will reboot your heltec after a while. I connect to my city’s root topic at msh/US /IN/Evansville and only have 4 to 6 other nodes. You may want to try the main channel or my local just to make sure it’s working then try and find your local mqtt root topic.

You usually can check meshmap.net to see what root topic people are on around you but it seems to be down right now. You could just try msh/US/State/City if you’re in the us.

Check out mqtt until you get nodes around you, the main channel will bogg down a heltec v3 but you should be able to find one for your city/state/area.

Welcome, yeah depending on where you are the network still has big gaps. I’ve been on my local mqtt topic to stay connected, but I did hit a lot of nodes driving through Tennessee.

Best i remember it’s compatible but v3 has a few important updates.

Sure, you can pick from a whole world of different LEDs, and drivers. But there are also a bunch of cheap headlamps that are small and bright.

More people are popping up on the network everyday. lots to learn and dig in to if you want, or you can set it and forget it. c/meshtastic