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@DaveMWilburn @tek I was thinking of getting one for an outage but talked myself out of it. Might make more sense to get a ham radio first. Feels like the ham radio people are going to be more helpful in an emergency event
I might be mistaken, but ham and meshtastic doesn't seem to be either/or. The venn diagram of ham radio operators and meshtastic operators has a huge intersection. The good news is that it's a very cheap system to experiment with. Rokland sells complete radios and radio kits for pretty cheap. So don't let my challenges dissuade you.
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My wife called Meshtastic "Tinder for Linux users"
I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.
@tek I did try and cruise on Meshtastic at chaos Congress but it didn't work
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I want to like #meshtastic but it has proven extremely ineffective in Alexandria VA. I have to walk a half-mile from my home and up a bridge to have any chance of being heard and relayed by anything, even when I use an aftermarket antenna. I hope it would work a little bit better in a regional comms/power outage because more people would probably be firing up their devices and joining the local mesh.
Also, I have to force-stop and restart the Android app most of the time whenever I lose and want to reestablish bluetooth connectivity with my T-Echo radio, and the radio itself seems to unpredictably hang and require a manual reboot every few days.
It'll probably just live in a drawer until/unless there's some sort of outage.
I'm out in the sticks of the country on top of a mountain. I am gathering the hardware to aim high gain antennas to nearby cities and see what happens.
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I might be mistaken, but ham and meshtastic doesn't seem to be either/or. The venn diagram of ham radio operators and meshtastic operators has a huge intersection. The good news is that it's a very cheap system to experiment with. Rokland sells complete radios and radio kits for pretty cheap. So don't let my challenges dissuade you.
@DaveMWilburn @boscoandpeck For sure. You can get going with the mesh for like $30, no license needed. It’s fun! I really enjoy it for hobby experimentation. I just don’t recommend it for life and death things. If you count on it to communicate in an emergency, or help your friends find you in a national forest, or find your lost pet, you’re probably in for a bummer.
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@tek I did try and cruise on Meshtastic at chaos Congress but it didn't work
@kawaiipunk Interesting. It worked surprising well at Def Con.
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I'm out in the sticks of the country on top of a mountain. I am gathering the hardware to aim high gain antennas to nearby cities and see what happens.
@dianea @DaveMWilburn Niiiice. I’d love to try that experiment.
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@kawaiipunk Interesting. It worked surprising well at Def Con.
@tek maybe it was me
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@tek maybe it was me
@kawaiipunk There are so many variables at play! If everyone there was on LongFast with 7 hops, I could see collisions ruining the whole thing.
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Reddit post:
My wife called Meshtastic "Tinder for Linux users"
I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.
@tek I had someone slide into my DMs because they saw me on Meshtastic. They asked me where I was because they wanted to know how far their node was reaching. Sure, bud, sure
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@tek I had someone slide into my DMs because they saw me on Meshtastic. They asked me where I was because they wanted to know how far their node was reaching. Sure, bud, sure
@ericr OK buddy.
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