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Thanks for the shoutout!!

There's going to potentially be a lot of devices at Hamvention. There's only so much room in the spectrum for comms; the devices will display usage and anything over 60% gets dicey. It's probably a good idea to tell people to set their devices to "client_mute" instead of "client". This will prevent devices from rebroadcasting each other except when needed letting the routers do most of the work.

I just ordered one from Amazon and it came in an hour ago. I will definitely be bringing mine to Dayton this weekend.

I am waiting for all my parts for a Solar Wisblock setup... That will be my main node.. Order the T-Deck today. So by the time you return I should at least of some of it ready to go! ;) Glad to see others are working through this...

You quite literally said what I said.. over 2 years ago. Being a GMRS/Ham guy, I was skeptical but it was explained horribly to me. Fast forward to 2 weeks ago. More reputable(and cool) ham guys started talking about it. Well, Im mapping all the mountains around me now. You explained it very well and it helped add to my growing mesh knowledge. Cant wait to get my network up

Hope to catch you at Hamvention.

I picked up a pair of the T beams with cases at a local hamfest back in March. Couple of buddies and i have plans of setting up a network, provided we'll be in range (have a decent ridge between us, so unknown yet). With other projects going on, we haven't gotten to these yet, but I'm glad you're posting some resources so I can learn more and hopefully implement relatively soon. Unfortunately, when I watched this video, I had already left my house and am already in northern KY with my father, so I don't have either of my T beams with me to take to Hamvention. I hope it works well and looking forward to an "after" video of the results. I'll be in Huntsville in August, so maybe we'll bring them there.

Good luck. I live in Dayton but will be in St Louis this weekend.

What these really need, is a onboard rechargable battery, and a solar panel (&/or solar power port). So, they can be installed in the wilds and act as a repeater. Then they can be placed around your area, to create an un-manned network.

My T-Beam is flashed up and ready to rock for Hamvention! This should be a fun way to put Meshtastic through the paces.

I have 2 Heltec V3's and another that is a RAK Wisblock that I am currently testing as a solar node that will be placed on my roof. I have 4 18650's in parallel that will charge via the solar panel using the RAK's built in solar charge circuit.

Thank you. Very Interested....

Meshtastic seems to be very popular in England. But I can't seem to find any hotspots / nodes in the Ga. Area. I want to get into it, but want to be able to connect & expand on, an established mesh network. (Love Lewis' channel in Manchester, England!) P.S. : Maybe I don't know where to find mesh spots, either?

LDG has no products for 900 Mhz. But I have the older tuner for LDG for Icon. Works for the 703, 746, 7300. Fits nicely on the 703/6!

I would use the license version options and use more power, a technician level ham license is sufficient. I know about some features will be locked out. 73

Have you looked into integrating to ATAK? I've got a couple rak wireless boards in a cart to order to use with ATAK.

What do I do with the two rows of standoff pins? Are they used anywhere on this rig?

I have 5 and setting up spots in Massachusetts mobile use you find folks along the way

The little devices are pretty cool however using them city they have a limited range 2-3 kms at most.

so all in all it is a point to point system or does it tie back into the net