Saw an interesting video on Meshtastic and what the powers that be think of the serfs communicating without their infrastructure.
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They've done it before (cancelled amateur radio comms) during WW1 and WW2. One of the reasons I am thinking twice about putting up a tower...not quite as easy to hide as a couple of wires are. I know that RF signals can be seen and located from space and flying aircraft but...
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Little Brother is only anti-authoritarian because in that world, the "wrong" side has the authority. Cory Doctorow plays at being Left-libertarian, but would happily see us all loaded on boxcars if his favored side can just get enough power to purge our wrongthink.Little Brother (Doctorow novel) - Wikipedia
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He's not a bad writer, but he is a Democratic Socialist.
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Are those Meshtastic T-Echo units any good?
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ToddDubya
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I looked into the meshtastic stuff at one point. It's a neat idea but "Long Range" may not mean what you think it means. Longer than BlueTooth. I'm not shitting on it, it's a cool idea.
The record node to node is 158 miles. It it 100% elevation and line of site. Some areas are more conducive than others for a network.
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ToddDubya
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Practical use is 1km in suburban type areas. The tradeoff is range vs bandwidth. If you're sending one bit of data really slowly, you get more range.
However, since it's a mesh, you can extend that range by adding more devices. They will continue to work out the best path(s) between themselves and other devices.
I'd love to try something like this:
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However, since it's a mesh, you can extend that range by adding more devices. They will continue to work out the best path(s) between themselves and other devices.
I'd love to try something like this:
GitHub - brucemack/WARS-Birdhouse: LoRa Mesh Network Node
LoRa Mesh Network Node. Contribute to brucemack/WARS-Birdhouse development by creating an account on GitHub.
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