Hi,

Recently got into the whole meshtastic / meshcore thing. The quality of discussion on reddit is of course quite negative. With luck some more of my fido friends will be interested as well!

I will work on gating my local net into the echo just because I think I can do it. LOL

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Shawn
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On 15 Apr 26 17:52:06, T1Ny said the following to All:

Recently got into the whole meshtastic / meshcore thing. The quality of discussion on reddit is of course quite negative. With luck some more of my fido friends will be interested as well!

Did you already buy a LoRa set?

Atreyu
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Hi Atreyu,
In a message to T1Ny you wrote:

Did you already buy a LoRa set?

<Cough> No... I bought 3. hahhahahahaa

I have a lilypad t-echo which is my current radio,
and I picked up a 2 pack of boards for the perm nodes.
I'll hang one outside on the balcony as I'm on the 9th
floor facing west I connect to a lot of nodes. The second one
will be a solar node on my friends property which is east of me
and has a pretty high elevation which I will use to connect to
the mesh from the woods as I have a direct line of site to his
place.

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On 16 Apr 2026, Tiny said the following...

I have a lilypad t-echo which is my current radio,
and I picked up a 2 pack of boards for the perm nodes.

I have a t-deck as a portable radio and a Heltec V3 connected to a larger antenna in my house. The antenna is on the second floor of my house, I'd like to try to get it into the attic or even mounted outdoors, but I don't have a lot of motivation as I live out in the 'burbs and these two nodes only see each other most of the time.

I'm somewhat near the airport in Hamilton (YHM) and occasionally someone on a plane will have one when they fly over. For a brief moment I can see A LOT of extra nodes.

I do have two extra LoRa radios for Raspberry Pi that I was playing with to see if I could send fidonet packets back & forth. It did work (sort of) but it was rather slow.


Jay

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16 Apr 26 16:28, you wrote to me:

I have a t-deck as a portable radio and a Heltec V3 connected to a
larger antenna in my house.

Heltec V4 are the two I ordered for the other project. The v4 2 pack was $10 cheaper then the v3 so I took a chance it won't be worse. LOL

house, I'd like to try to get it into the attic or even mounted
outdoors, but I don't have a lot of motivation as I live out in the
'burbs and these two nodes only see each other most of the time.

You can always connect to mqtt and there is traffic there. I just started with Canadaverse and it's not as busy so easier to have local conversations.

I'm somewhat near the airport in Hamilton (YHM) and occasionally
someone on a plane will have one when they fly over. For a brief
moment I can see A LOT of extra nodes.

Last week on that clear day there were a few planes overhead and I guess "Pilot Mike" (The one node name I remember) was one of them as I had over 250 nodes appear. I connected with someone on the mountain in Hamilton on that same clear evening. My radio is "Zead9c8e" and I'm normally on 6-10pm, I can't leave it on all the time yet due to a cat who has learned how to unlock and open doors and doesn't like anything higher then he can reach.

I do have two extra LoRa radios for Raspberry Pi that I was playing
with to see if I could send fidonet packets back & forth. It did work (sort of) but it was rather slow.

That would have been a cool project to keep you busy for a bit. ;0 I'm sure it can work but I bet rather slow is an understatment.

Shawn

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On 16 Apr 26 05:43:00, Tiny said the following to Atreyu:

Did you already buy a LoRa set?

<Cough> No... I bought 3. hahhahahahaa

Sooooo.... if I wanted to get my feet wet, what is the best set to buy?

Nick
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Atreyu wrote in a message to Tiny:

Sooooo.... if I wanted to get my feet wet, what is the best set to
buy?

If you want a portable node go with the Lilygo T-echo. That's the one I have connected to my phone, supports everything easy to flash and for such a small antenna it's pretty darn powerful. I went with the e-paper screen, but I'm insane for that stuff and even my phone is epaper.

If you want to do more perm things, the heltek v3/v4 boards are just work horses. I'm still waiting on mine as the first one I picked up was damaged in transit.

I can see other nodes out your direction so if you do decide to pick one up I'd have another way to bother you! "Nick did you see it?! DID YOU!?"

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On 19 Apr 26 09:44:52, Tiny said the following to Atreyu:

I can see other nodes out your direction so if you do decide to pick one up I'd have another way to bother you! "Nick did you see it?! DID YOU!?"

Mannnn I'll never live that one down.

"The hornets! Nicky look at them! Hornets!!!! Jee-zuz Chriiiiiist!"

Yeah I'll look at getting one of these LoRA sets. Anything named after my exwife gets my interest... for the moment.

Atreyu
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Hi Atreyu,
On <Mon, 19 Apr 26>, you wrote me:

"The hornets! Nicky look at them! Hornets!!!! Jee-zuz Chriiiiiist!"

Did you see the hornets?

Yeah I'll look at getting one of these LoRA sets. Anything named after
my exwife gets my interest... for the moment.

The cool thing is it's a fairly inexpensive hobby. (insert ex wife joke
here).

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On 20 Apr 26 09:08:00, Tiny said the following to Atreyu:

"The hornets! Nicky look at them! Hornets!!!! Jee-zuz Chriiiiiist!"

Did you see the hornets?

There was only a few, but it might as well of been a big freaking nest on my front porch the way I was reminded about it.

Yeah I'll look at getting one of these LoRA sets. Anything named after
my exwife gets my interest... for the moment.

The cool thing is it's a fairly inexpensive hobby. (insert ex wife joke here).

So I'm assuming we're not going to see any fees in the future for this...

Atreyu
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On 20 Apr 2026, Atreyu said the following...

here).

So I'm assuming we're not going to see any fees in the future for this...

You guys..... :-)

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Re: Re: Welcome
By: Tiny to Atreyu on Thu Apr 16 2026 05:43:00

the mesh from the woods.

Now there's a thriller novel title for ya.
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Re: Welcome
By: Tiny to Atreyu on Sun Apr 19 2026 09:44:52

...even my phone is epaper.

Does that mean when you turn it off it disappears?
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Hello Mortar!

05 May 26 10:45, you wrote to me:

...even my phone is epaper.

Does that mean when you turn it off it disappears?

Normally displays the last thing on it's screen util you
turn it back on. Like E-ink, but it's the cheap version.

Shawn
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