Thank you for watching, and fun to hear feedback from a few of you regarding Anker Power banks (primarily an issue with RAK since so efficient) and that someone has a device setup and ready for SOTA / POTA (ham mode and zero hops). Please see video description for any updates, or thanks for sharing you're learnings, comments, and questions below!
Great presentation. Just to clarify a point: The Meshtastic distance record of 158 miles was done with stock out-of-the-box settings (LongFast) with the regular cheap omnidirectional antenna that comes with the Heltec. The only advantage was having line of sight between two points. Having RF line of sight is where LoRa excels. Also some Anker power banks can power low draw devices by double pressing the power button to put it in always-on mode.
Thank you so much for taking the time to clarify the distance record, and fun to know it was Heltec! I'm looking at setting up a device in ham mode for hiking to summits with "Summits on the Air", and there are a few other SOTA activators looking at as well. Hoping to make some longer "summit to summit" contacts with Meshtastic this summer, and also want to do with non-ham mode. Great info about Anker power banks with low power devices! I'll have to try that out and will update video description, and may follow-up with update video based on other learnings since this video.
Before anyone drops another dime on this, they had better get involved in stopping the FCC from selling off the 900MHz band: ua-cam.com/video/dGMg8lwR2lg/v-deo.html I wanted to get started in this for awhile, and finally took the plunge, even just last week setting up a router for my neighborhood. Now it might all be money down the toilet if this goes through.
Thank you for watching, and fun to hear feedback from a few of you regarding Anker Power banks (primarily an issue with RAK since so efficient) and that someone has a device setup and ready for SOTA / POTA (ham mode and zero hops). Please see video description for any updates, or thanks for sharing you're learnings, comments, and questions below!
Great presentation. Just to clarify a point: The Meshtastic distance record of 158 miles was done with stock out-of-the-box settings (LongFast) with the regular cheap omnidirectional antenna that comes with the Heltec. The only advantage was having line of sight between two points. Having RF line of sight is where LoRa excels.
Also some Anker power banks can power low draw devices by double pressing the power button to put it in always-on mode.
Thank you so much for taking the time to clarify the distance record, and fun to know it was Heltec! I'm looking at setting up a device in ham mode for hiking to summits with "Summits on the Air", and there are a few other SOTA activators looking at as well. Hoping to make some longer "summit to summit" contacts with Meshtastic this summer, and also want to do with non-ham mode.
Great info about Anker power banks with low power devices! I'll have to try that out and will update video description, and may follow-up with update video based on other learnings since this video.
Before anyone drops another dime on this, they had better get involved in stopping the FCC from selling off the 900MHz band: ua-cam.com/video/dGMg8lwR2lg/v-deo.html
I wanted to get started in this for awhile, and finally took the plunge, even just last week setting up a router for my neighborhood. Now it might all be money down the toilet if this goes through.