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  • kudra@sh.itjust.worksOPtoMeshtastic@mander.xyzMy mesh beginnings
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    10 days ago

    Yes for emergency services radio is probably better, but have had the conversation that those bands get very busy when there is actually an emergency, and unless you’re directly involved in the emergency response it’s better to keep quiet even if you have the devices. To keep everyone else in the loop a mesh would be really helpful and allows for direct comms between people without radio knowledge. I’ve done enough radio stuff at festivals to know it’s a bit daunting for beginners. But these days pretty much everyone, even your grandma, has a cell phone and most understand apps and text messages. So the learning curve is pretty small.



  • kudra@sh.itjust.worksOPtoMeshtastic@mander.xyzMy mesh beginnings
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    That’s great you have a node high up, I would love to do that here but not sure where it might be practical to do. What kind of tower is the 200 feet one?

    I’m in the middle of the 400 and 200 meter people, they are in opposite directions. I was thinking the Station G2 would be good on the roof of the highest house to extend the mesh further but if no one else interested then I was going to do it on mine, which isn’t ideal but would have pretty good reach in one direction, but I’m fairly encouraged with the experiments so far. We get bushwalkers and campers & 4wders up in this area all the time so am expecting to see occasional nodes pop up temporarily if Meshtastic really takes off.

    Thanks about the suggestion to try Long Slow, I decided to keep on the default of LongFast at least initially, due to potential for visitors to the region with nodes.




  • The worst case I’ve read about is BurningMan 2023, once enough people were on the mesh it completely stopped working and they had to write a special version of the app so it wouldn’t fail so badly… so it looks like there are ways to mitigate congested networks, but that is not stock. I admit I’m a complete newbie but there are some scathing comments about how poor Meshtastic is, though I’ve read others that say it’s fine for what it tries to do but not great for other purposes. So my gut tells me Reticulum would probably be a better long term protocol which you could develop a stand alone app for BBS, instead of piggybacking on Meshtastic app.