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Set up solar nodes last weekend. 200 miles of range now. Nerds, mad ideas. Good times.

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Did you set up solar nodes in random spots or only areas you own/control?

I've wondered if it'd be legal to just chuck a couple into some random trees.

What do you need 200 miles of range for?

RTO

what does that stand for?

Reading The Onion

Return To Office

Reno To Oakland

Race The Otter

Restarting The Oracle

Racing Towards Oblivion

Reach The Others

Radio Transmission Optimization

Round Trip Orbit

Really Tiny Ombudsman

Zombies

Personally I find it very satisfying to get long near-line-of-site performance in VHF and up. That could be reaching a repeater 100+ miles away on two meters with a handheld and a tape measure yagi

https://www.jpole-antenna.com/2017/02/07/build-it-2-meter-ta...

or talking to somebody with a bigger station 300+ miles away because of a tropospheric duct or just getting into the WiFi at the hospital from the other side of the lake.

While the local Czech MeshCore network is heavily supported by a couple repeaters on higher hills and mountains to connect the meshes around metropolitan centers, ideally it should be much more distributed and less dependent on such a few important nodes.

Basically a lot more repeaters & more hops to reach longer distances.

This also helps with scaling as more messages can be routed local only via MeshCore region support scoping, effectively using the available bandwidth on many places for different purposes at the same time.

And when the temperature drops below zero?

Not having great luck with my solar node. Nothing ever seems to get out, even with a pretty nice antenna...

Wrong antenna for the frequency?

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