This is my latest Meshtastic node, it has a bigger antenna, solar powered and is online as KC0TAD. If you run a licensed node you must be a licensed Amateur Radio operator and the node gets named your call sign.
I am getting it dialed in and you will see it on meshmap.net as one of the two nodes in Johnstown.
There is: Hockey2 and KC0TAD
Hockey2 is super stable and always on, I have not got mine ironed out 100% yet – but I am getting there! (Keep checking, you will see it!)
It is amazing how far these little guys can talk, I took one to work and sent a message from my office in Aurora and it got through the mesh network back to my house in Johnstown, really very quickly & easily.
Using no internet, no commercial services, no cell signal, just old fashioned RF (Radio Frequency) – 100% legal, 100% free.
Kinda makes you think about all the kinds of emergency communications you could do with these things if you wanted too!
Hmmmm, super secret, spy mode, ideas… And yes you can encrypt your data – so only the node you are sending it to can ready it.
Secret code too! Hmmmm…
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