Meshtastic sounds great in concept but IMO it’s useless in most parts of the world due to it’s extreme low power.
If all your neighbours have one or there aren’t many buidings around blocking line of sight then meshtastic has great potential. Otherwise I would stuck be sending messages to myself.
Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands, specially shortwave, then meshtastic would be an incredibility powerful too. However illegal.
Meshtastic sounds great in concept but IMO it’s useless in most parts of the world due to it’s extreme low power.
If all your neighbours have one or there aren’t many buidings around blocking line of sight then meshtastic has great potential. Otherwise I would stuck be sending messages to myself.
Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands, specially shortwave, then meshtastic would be an incredibility powerful too. However illegal.
Antennas and location.
I can see one node on top of the tallest building around here and it allows me to connect to nodes 20-30km away.
Some nodes have up to 5 watts, but you have to put them in ham mode with your license, it also disables encryption (ham requirement)
You can stitch together several different cheap radios in different frequencies using MQTT.
TBF, I’d be super happy just to move back to APRS, (i’m a ham) but the equipment is stupid expensive.