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Hi Folks,
Has anyone played around with these LoRa radio nodes? It looks interesting, despite not required a license (heh).
There don’t seem to be many nodes here in NH, but it seems popular elsewhere. I’m tempted to buy some hardware to check it out.
73,
Bob KB1TEK
I’ve been playing with it on and off for a while now, using a variety of hardware, but haven’t bothered to keep a permanent node up, or get a better antenna, due to the lack of other nodes in my area. I recently met somebody on the Meshtastic Discord, though, who has a node up on a hill in the Milford/Amherst area. I’ve also picked up another node in my neighborhood the other day, when trying to map out coverage of one of my nodes.
I have a couple nodes on 915 and on 433 but have not seen any activity here in Lyndeborough. Not surprising as I am surrounded by high chucks of granite except somewhat to the Southeast. Interesting concept but you need so many nodes to make it very viable and at that point you end with congestion. As you know BOTH bands in use are in the ham band and they have a “ham” mode that removes encryption and you may run more power.
So what bands are you folks using and are you using “ham” mode.
73, Jon K1IMD
I too have several nodes. I don’t have any up permanently, but plan to get one or two nodes setup.
Currently I use the nodes with family groups hiking / skiing for basic text communications. This is also a good use for older phones that don’t have an active data plan.
When I get some free time, I plan to see if I can expand the supported sensor list and use them for an IoT to MQTT gateway.
The Merrimack Valley Digital Network has more nodes using AREDN mesh networking. See: https://merrimackvalleyara.org/mv-digital-network/
Also: https://worldmap.arednmesh.org/#8.32/43.094/-70.764
Zoom in to NH/MA/ME
MVARA will have a demonstration at NEAR-fest on Friday and Saturday.
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