Reddit post:

@DaveMWilburn I’m sharing in case you have seen this - have you tried these NoVa specific settings? If not it may be worth a shot: https://groups.io/g/NoVa-Meshtastic/

@DaveMWilburn @tek I was thinking of getting one for an outage but talked myself out of it. Might make more sense to get a ham radio first. Feels like the ham radio people are going to be more helpful in an emergency event

@DaveMWilburn @tek I was thinking of getting one for an outage but talked myself out of it. Might make more sense to get a ham radio first. Feels like the ham radio people are going to be more helpful in an emergency event

Reddit post:

My wife called Meshtastic "Tinder for Linux users"

I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.

@tek

I want to like #meshtastic but it has proven extremely ineffective in Alexandria VA. I have to walk a half-mile from my home and up a bridge to have any chance of being heard and relayed by anything, even when I use an aftermarket antenna. I hope it would work a little bit better in a regional comms/power outage because more people would probably be firing up their devices and joining the local mesh.

Also, I have to force-stop and restart the Android app most of the time whenever I lose and want to reestablish bluetooth connectivity with my T-Echo radio, and the radio itself seems to unpredictably hang and require a manual reboot every few days.

It'll probably just live in a drawer until/unless there's some sort of outage.

@boscoandpeck @tek

I might be mistaken, but ham and meshtastic doesn't seem to be either/or. The venn diagram of ham radio operators and meshtastic operators has a huge intersection. The good news is that it's a very cheap system to experiment with. Rokland sells complete radios and radio kits for pretty cheap. So don't let my challenges dissuade you.

@tek I did try and cruise on Meshtastic at chaos Congress but it didn't work

@DaveMWilburn @tek

I'm out in the sticks of the country on top of a mountain. I am gathering the hardware to aim high gain antennas to nearby cities and see what happens.

@kawaiipunk Interesting. It worked surprising well at Def Con.

@tek maybe it was me

Reddit post:

My wife called Meshtastic "Tinder for Linux users"

I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.

@tek I had someone slide into my DMs because they saw me on Meshtastic. They asked me where I was because they wanted to know how far their node was reaching. Sure, bud, sure