Reddit post:
My wife called Meshtastic "Tinder for Linux users"
I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.
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Reddit post:
My wife called Meshtastic "Tinder for Linux users"
I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.
waspfactory reshared this.
Dave Wilburn
in reply to Tekniquelly correct • • •I want to like #meshtastic but it has proven extremely ineffective in Alexandria VA. I have to walk a half-mile from my home and up a bridge to have any chance of being heard and relayed by anything, even when I use an aftermarket antenna. I hope it would work a little bit better in a regional comms/power outage because more people would probably be firing up their devices and joining the local mesh.
Also, I have to force-stop and restart the Android app most of the time whenever I lose and want to reestablish bluetooth connectivity with my T-Echo radio, and the radio itself seems to unpredictably hang and require a manual reboot every few days.
It'll probably just live in a drawer until/unless there's some sort of outage.
Tekniquelly correct
in reply to Dave Wilburn • • •JPeck
in reply to Dave Wilburn • • •Tekniquelly correct
in reply to JPeck • • •@boscoandpeck @DaveMWilburn Today, I would not recommend Meshtastic for an outage. It’s a fun hobby but I wouldn’t trust my life with it. And in any case, it’s the kind of thing you have to have up and running before you need it.
I also have a ham (extra) license and would trust it in a disaster. The hardware is more robust, the range is much better, and it’s more widely used and practiced today. Meshtastic range can’t improve too much, but the others could change with time.
Dave Wilburn
in reply to JPeck • • •I might be mistaken, but ham and meshtastic doesn't seem to be either/or. The venn diagram of ham radio operators and meshtastic operators has a huge intersection. The good news is that it's a very cheap system to experiment with. Rokland sells complete radios and radio kits for pretty cheap. So don't let my challenges dissuade you.
Tekniquelly correct
in reply to Dave Wilburn • • •diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱
in reply to Dave Wilburn • • •I'm out in the sticks of the country on top of a mountain. I am gathering the hardware to aim high gain antennas to nearby cities and see what happens.
Tekniquelly correct
in reply to diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱 • • •/dev/loop0
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in reply to /dev/loop0 • • •NilaJones
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in reply to NilaJones • • •GitHub - kstrauser/frozenbbs: Frozen BBS, a message board for Meshtastic
GitHubKawaiiPunk
in reply to Tekniquelly correct • • •Tekniquelly correct
in reply to KawaiiPunk • • •KawaiiPunk
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in reply to KawaiiPunk • • •Eric R
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in reply to Eric R • • •Kristoff (ON1ARF)
in reply to Tekniquelly correct • • •Mikalai
in reply to Tekniquelly correct • • •Oliver Seiler
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in reply to Oliver Seiler • • •Vincent Sparks
in reply to Tekniquelly correct • • •screw it, that's all i wanted anyway.
anyone got a recommendation for a good meshtastic radio?
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in reply to Vincent Sparks • • •KM7CDC
in reply to Tekniquelly correct • • •gkrnours
in reply to Tekniquelly correct • • •chekov
in reply to Tekniquelly correct • • •steppl
in reply to Tekniquelly correct • • •The tinder theory is funny. 😉
My wife just asks what it is good for. When trying to explain (no internet needed comms) , she has this "oh another toy" looks. 😉
Eva Mikkonen
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