This is what the Meshcore map looks like now in the Pacific Northwest. My little node can see over a hundred repeaters on the mesh.
We now regularly have chat conversations that span several cities and we have frequent posters from Canada. A typical day sees HUNDREDS of posts in the public channel. Whole sentences and thoughts, not just "ping".
Meshcore is really taking off!
There have been so many really cool developments in the last month just from adoption.
Recently someone hiked up Mt Rainer and had a conversation with us on the public meshcore chat. When I went through the cougar mountain repeater's logs I noticed my repeater in Seattle's U District was actually the first hop that was connecting them to the mesh.
If that wasn't wild enough, the hiker was using a TINY radio, the Seeed Studio t1000e 🤯
A few weeks after the Mt Rainer feat, some friends went camping and hiking all around the Orcas islands and we never lost contact at all.
At times they had better connection to the mesh while camping than they do in the city.
They hiked up Mt Constitution and were able to get direct line of sight connections to repeaters in Seattle using a typical handheld LoRa radio with an external antenna.
Over this weekend I was sadly asleep for one of my favorite effects in radio, tropospheric ducting!
I'd read a paper years ago from a team who detected ducting events in 868MHz LoRaWAN networks. These events allow end devices to reach concentrator nodes hundreds of miles away, possibly even beyond the curve of the earth.
I was wondering if we'd see this in lora meshes and turns out YES!
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