[TriLUG] anyone using Meshtastic?

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025, Tadd Torborg wrote:

> 10 elements in 915Mhz.

so you have the LoRa up on the tower and you wifi to it?

> 80m 10 elements would be hard to do.   Fun, maybe, ?  ha

it would be a great antenna. Of course it would have to be a couple of 
wavelengths above the ground.

> We need some high sites.  It would also be good to have a polling or 
> token-passing protocol.  We?re sharing a channel with an unspecified 
> number of emitters, and many of those will relay messages they hear. 
> This creates channel congestion/collisions.

they need a routing protocol. Then most of the traffic would be routing 
messages.

> The max observed throughput is going to be orders of magnitude below the 
> modem bitrate. Tadd ? KA2DEW

I see

Joe

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