LoRa Meshtastic coms ?

[Death from Above]

Anyone here dabbling on different LoRa comm sets?

[Death from Above]

https://youtu.be/DUz6cVSaSl4?si=M2LomFKd29YgiqWY

[Playa]

I’ma need LoRa Meshtastic for Dummies….


and I know what LoRa is, used it on a rgb light display controller for remote access

[Death from Above]

I am working my way through it. It appears to be a much more viable mode of communication in a SHTF scenario.

I ordered some radios and will update how it goes.

my son is doing all the leg work and 6 months ahead of me.

[Playa]

I gathered that much. With intel indicating that Russia has or is developing a nuclear type of weapon capable of destroying targets within earth’s atmosphere, the SHTF starts looking more and more like an EMP. In which case neither the satellites nor the servers used for LoRa will work.

at that point HAM radios stored in a cage would be the only tech capable of communications

am I right?

[Death from Above]

Meshstatic uses radio frequency like a ham radio.

granted, what i see is relegated to text thru the mesh app.

working on distances now…may be able to get 10 miles or so?

[Death from Above]

Time to bump this with the current cell debacle?

set up your network on the cheap for friends and family.

Imagine if every TBHER had a mesh node what the coverage would be like...

[Michael]

Interesting. I'm curious which radios you (and your son) purchased (and the considerations that went into your choice(s).

[Death from Above]

Interesting. I'm curious which radios you (and your son) purchased (and the considerations that went into your choice(s).

It is a very neat fail safe. I will do a write and post our equipment. I have a few different nodes. (Went cheap at first)

I recently purchased the Lilygo Techo and plan on having my daughter carry it in her car since she travels to UT Tyler daily.

Ill post back when I get home today

[Michael]

The T-Echo units are sold out at Rokland and, digging deeper, it says that Lilygo doesn't have parts to build new units until April (with further delays possible.) Hopefully you got in before stock ran out. Lilygo's website says they'll ship by March 15th.

[Death from Above]

I have one I need to flash and add a better antenna.

my first 2 nodes were the wiz blocks. I had to solder them but they work fine...lots of neat enclosures being 3d printed across the web.

also check FB market place for used...sometimes you hit it right

[Pedernal]

Here is a link to a video with additional information… https://www.youtube.com/live/boKh_0F...0xVpAVPM5IJTsD


a member of the ham club I am in has been talking about the meshtastic and sent this out a couple of weeks back… the system works on unlicensed ISM band of frequencies from 902 - 928 MHz…. The limitations on these frequencies is that the power is regulated to very low wattage… at the frequency range it almost becomes line of sight… better than nothing for sure especially if cell service goes out…

personally, I have used buckeye brand cameras that work on this range of frequency and we had a network with nodes that were 45 + miles away using directional high gain antennas. This was out in the sticks with little to no interference from other devices running the same frequencies. Obviously range will be different in urban type areas where there are potentially a lot of devices being used.