[TriLUG] anyone using Meshtastic?

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025, Tadd Torborg wrote:

Hi Tadd,

> I have been on Meshtastic since December.   Nodename is KA2DEW-Tadd

seems there's a few people lying low now popping up to say hello.

> At ground level, the range across the neighborhood is a little better 
> than 2.4Ghz WiFi.

Oh well. I was hoping for better.

> From my 55? tower

nice, particularly for being in suburbia.

> and 10 element yagi,

on 915MHz, 2.4GHz, 80m?

> The text messaging doesn?t give you a ?Delivered? for the person you are 
> trying to reach, but it does give you a Delivered if somebody receives 
> it, else it gives an error.

thanks

> The units can send and receive traffic via the Internet as well and I?m 
> not clear that it is obvious which network is being used. It is pretty 
> easy to turn off the Internet connectivity.  If there is no smartphone 
> involved in a station, it can?t do Internet.

I guess this will become obvious soon enough.

> The bandwidth is pretty restricted and if there are multiple senders 
> simultaneously, it goes badly.

I can imagine. That's proably why it works well in the outback in 
Australia.

> There are many tools for combining diagnostics, from various nodes, from 
> Internet connected stations.  If running entirely off-the-grid, the 
> diagnostic capability is practically zero.
>
> There are many advocates for Meshtastic that are fine with using 
> Internet for communications.  I?m more interested in the Mesh-over-radio 
> aspect.

I assume radio == LoRa

Thanks Joe
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