Baby's first solar powered LoRa #meshtastic node.

Still waiting on a better antenna.

Whatever stroke of luck that was giving my #meshtastic node access to the rest of the mesh is gone. Until yesterday there was an otherwise silent node out there that was forwarding packets to and from mine.

I'm now anxiously awaiting my new antenna to arrive, because it feels wrong for my tiny radio child to be cut off from its friends.

Genuinely impressed with #meshtastic thus far. I've got a pair of ThinkNode M2s, and the antennas that come with them are literally bits of printed circuit board, and yet they've managed to get a surprising bit of range (maybe 300m) out of them with suboptimal placement and no special care.

I can see that with a real antenna and an elevated position they'd go quite well.

meshtastic.org/

Meshtastic

An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

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Think more people should know about the Matrix Ham Radio community!

Mike, M0AWS who runs the #matrix space has a nice info dump at: m0aws.co.uk/matrix/

There are rooms for #hf, #vhf, #uhf, #qo100, #satellites and #meshtastic amongst a bunch of others.