[TriLUG] anyone using Meshtastic?

[Tadd Torborg via TriLUG]

The Meshtastic unit is in my hamshack, about 90 feet of LMR400 from the antenna. 
I use bluetooth to get to it from my iphone.  

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Tadd / KA2DEW  https://qrz.com/db/ka2dew
tadd at mac.com
Raleigh NC  FM05pv

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> On Jun 24, 2025, at 14:29, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at trilug.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 Jun 2025, Tadd Torborg wrote:
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>> 10 elements in 915Mhz.
> 
> so you have the LoRa up on the tower and you wifi to it?
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>> 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.
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> they need a routing protocol. Then most of the traffic would be routing messages.
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>> The max observed throughput is going to be orders of magnitude below the modem bitrate. Tadd ? KA2DEW
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> I see
> 
> Joe
> 
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