• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    There is 0 meshcore anywhere near me. I drove heltek v3’s around my beltway, nada.

    I would think a mile should be doable to your kid’s school.

    Nope, tried it, no radio line of site. it’s a little hilly here and there’s a shit ton of old-growth forrest in between.

    I’ve been trying to find a tree tall enough to repeat with clear solar from the south, that’s not on someone’s property, The only good options are in the middle of a swampy run.

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      15 hours ago

      Ah, gotcha. Well in that case meshtastic is definitely your best bet for now and as for getting a node up into the tree I’m not sure unless you’re willing to go swamp bogging

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        12 hours ago

        If I weren’t so close to an airport, I’d do a tethered balloon. I do have a drone so i could lay paracord over a high branch and hoist it up if I had the gear to not get bit by something nasty. If I wasn’t so worried about the cost. I could just strand a solar node up there with a long break-away line and just write it off when it needed batteries.