I just bought a SeedStudio SenseCAP T100-E. I only see 1 node in my area on meshmap.net and doubt i will be able to hit it. I will just have to add myself to the mqtt map to let others know a new node exists in my area.
I just bought a SeedStudio SenseCAP T100-E. I only see 1 node in my area on meshmap.net and doubt i will be able to hit it. I will just have to add myself to the mqtt map to let others know a new node exists in my area.
Oh yeah, the big ham radio thing is that height is might, especially when dealing with UHF and VHF signals. I am really looking forward to getting the node even if there’s currently nobody that I can talk to with it just because I can put it on MQTT and show that somebody in the area is building up the network. About the highest ham radio frequency I’ve worked with is the 440 megahertz UHF band on 70 centimeters. So this will be higher than I’m used to for amateur radio, but way lower than I’m used to on things like Wi-Fi and such. One thing is for sure, and that at the $40 price point of the T1000E, it doesn’t matter if there’s nobody around to talk to. Because that price is nothing to sneeze at.
Once I can get a sense of how built out the network is and start to contribute to its build out I may very well consider getting my family some of them just for the hell of it. I know, despite all the work, that the software is still pretty early days as well, as it still has the beta label and is only version 2.5.18 from what I can tell.
Also, here’s meshmap of my extended area
And here’s the node map, btw, I’m in Albuquerque so there’s a lot more there because of that
The city about 70 miles to my south has eight nodes on the map and the city about 70 miles to my northeast has about four or five nodes but my area only has one that shows on the map anyway. I am hoping there are more that just don’t want to be included, but I’m not holding my breath put it that way.