[TriLUG] anyone using Meshtastic?

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

I was wondering how widespread LoRa/Meshtastic is. I looked for 
weatherstations on Amazon. Only one used LoRa (a Raddy7) and that was from 
the weatherstation to the console. It didn't have meshtastic, so you 
couldn't connect to a weatherstation two hops away.

There were other problems with the Raddy7

o you are expected to replace the transmitter on the weatherstation every 
year (or two), although I didn't find out why. This is a showstopper to 
me.

o the console and the weatherstation have a one-to-one connection. You 
can't use a console to access multiple weatherstations. So if you had 
multiple weather stations at the limit of the range (1.9miles), you would 
need multiple consoles.

Further searches on Amazon for LoRa/meshtastic just brought up meshstatic 
development boards

Joe

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