143 sats \ 8 replies \ @nerd2ninja 21 Oct \ on: Setting Up My First Meshtastic Radio bitcoin
Keep in mind the LoRa is line of sight. If the radio is in your house, your walls will block the radio. If its outside though, the signal can go for miles
I'm new and you aren't wrong but you can totally use the radios in the house. I have made contacts from inside the house. Just want to clarify this for others.
A common approach is to have an outdoor radio/antenna that connects you to others but you use a handheld in your house if you can't reach your outside node via bluetooth.
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You gotta generalize for new users and then "well actually's" they can figure out on their own through experimentation.
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Fair.
There is a lot of hype about Meshtastic right now and I'm betting many will be pretty disappointed by the limitations. Its inevitable. I hung my radio about 50 feet up in one of my trees and wasn't able to reach anyone.
My contacts have been made when people fly over with radios and connect many nodes.
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Yes, which is why I'm contemplating a pole on my roof or hanging an antenna from a tree top in the yard. Also, driving around the neighborhood can be productive.
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Sorry you got me started on one of my favorite topics. We info dumping now XD
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Dump away! I'm really interested in Starlink too, but I don't know much about it yet.
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Some people I know are also looking into reticulum for the same hardware they have meshtastic installed on.
https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2023/05/19/introduction-to-reticulum/
On the store and forward side of things, you can apparently host a BBS (Bulletin Board System) https://github.com/TheCommsChannel/TC2-BBS-mesh