Its on a table right now, it’ll be going on my roof

It is! We’ll see how she does once I get her all wired together. Still waiting on some standoffs.

The nebra next to it’s case is super nice as well. Waiting for a zebra hat from wehooper4 to pop into that bad boy

APRS routing is not adaptive to moving topology; Meshtastic explicitly supports mobile nodes and dynamic meshes

MT is more meant for flexible, off-grid, ad-hoc meshes with mixed mobile/static nodes and evolving routing optimizations

In my opinion, faux unicast on a broadcast medium is generally not a good fit

What are your primary direct connections? Assuming yuba and sutter buttes?

Connect with the other SLO guys on our discord https://bayme.sh/ the user mk is our primary SLO contact

We’re on medium fast right now due to node density in the bay

Blue dots = MF Orange dots = ms Red dots = lf

Its a RAK 5.8dBi Fiberglass Antenna I got from Rokland. I’m just getting into all of this recently so I’ve got a lot to learn, but it’s a fun process!

Lol, I’m the same way. Meshtastic is the hobby of the month and it’s been fun so far.

Here a few reasons I’m liking it:

• Learn more about radio frequencies
• Off-grid communication, while hiking, camping, hunting etc
• Communication and location updates in areas with poor cell service (concerts, music festivals, trave, boating, etc)
• Emergency preparedness
• In my area the broadcast channel is pretty active, so a community of like minded people to chat with
• Fun little devices you get to burn money on (I have 4 pre-made and parts for 4 more I’ll make myself on the way)

Yeah, that’s where the Faraday cage would come in to play

1. Semi, there are some network bridges that translate packets in to ones that the target network expects. Meshtastic has the “market share” in my area, and is completely FOSS, so I gravitate towards it. Reticulum seems very interesting but doesn’t have high adoption at this time.
2. Yeah, I’m sure that some people do. Cell networks may also go down if overloaded during a natural disaster, but yes this is mostly a hobby.

I’m planning on leaving a few nodes in advantageous locations near families work and home to ensure we can coordinate if cell goes down, and will get around to stashing a few away in a cage just in case

1. There are two others that I know of: Meshcore, and reticulum.
2. In my short time in the scene, I haven’t seen anyone talk about anti-EMP measures they have taken.

Its my understanding (I may be wrong here) that the antenna wouldn’t be able to be exposed during the initial EMP anyways, so you’d need to keep a stash of nodes in a Faraday cage to deploy after an EMP

It’s designed to help weak/mobile/indoor nodes in poor radio locations, not routers. When you favorite routers or other strong nodes, your CLIENT_BASE aggressively rebroadcasts their traffic (acting as ROUTER), which can actually suppress better routing paths and add unnecessary congestion. The feature works best when you favorite only your personal handheld/EDC devices that need the boost from your strong base station. Favoriting already-strong infrastructure nodes defeats the purpose and can negatively impact overall mesh connectivity.

This is entirely dependent on your mesh topology of course. In our larger mesh with a lot of routers in advantageous locations, a client base favoriting a router would do more harm than good

If he sets it to client base tell him to be careful with his favorites! Can mess up routing if he favorites a router

You should see what they’ve built out in the bay. Routers on all of the surrounding mountains. Its beautiful. I sent a message that went out to yuba city all the way down to San Luis Obispo last night

Welcome to the rabbit hole. Hopefully you don’t spend as much money as I did initially lol 🤣

Yessir, and it’s funny that you say pager because there’s a device that does just that!

https://meshtastic.org/

Thanks for the rec! Yeah I have a sensecap solar on my roof in client base, was very impressed with the range I got on my walk today.

I have a rokland 5.8DBI fiberglass coming in the mail tomorrow I think, so I can hopefully get away with an internal

Shoot I just ordered a few t114s from heltec to make some solar nodes. I should have added some stubbies to that order.

Its a low powered long range radio that runs meshtastic firmware!

It allows people to share text-based communications without needing the internet or cell towers, think of it like walkie-talkies that can talk to multiple people at once and automatically relay messages from one radio to another, creating a mesh network.

You’re not too out of the loop, if you’re on Lemmy!