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Melbourne Meshtastic Users, Australia #7
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Nice 😄 To answer your q from the discourse board, hood's antenna is this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004104155940.html |
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That should be fine. Mine is similar. 🙂 |
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thanks, good to know. Im really hoping the rak sorts out my tx/rx weirdness |
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I only recently got a RAK 2nd gen base board with the 4631 core. Am curious about the solar input. Anyone know if it's proper MPPT, or how efficient it is? Can it take a 6V panel? |
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I'm not sure but I know it's 5V max. 🙂 |
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RippleGuy here. :-) |
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Anyone have mast recommendations? |
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Im using a similar one for a weather station here. Did you fix the issue with the locking up RAK module? |
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I'm currently hijacking my weather pole but will probably move it to my tv antenna pole once the rak comes... ideally id like a 3m ish telescopic mast to get it up higher though |
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Two lengths of 32mm Conduit fastened to the garden shed which is extremely bendy in the wind. But its survived what the winter could throw at it. The only other problem is the cockatoos nibbling the antenna. |
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I caved and just bought another one...😉 |
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Hello everyone from USB. After a quick WTF moment on the discourse group until I worked out what was going on. |
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I too had that moment 😆 |
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Me too!!! |
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Hi all, I am interested in the best setup for a rooftop mesh node. Currently I have a 9dbi Omni on a rak 4631 on a 3m mast on the roof of a 2 story house. From the trace routes I have been doing, I have much better receive capability than I have transmit capability. I am interested in whether it is worth trying to dial down the receive sensitivity on the node to match better the transmit range so that the node doesn’t act as a one way repeater. I feel like this isn’t an isolated issue, I see people all over the mesh transmitting and getting no response even though the mesh definitely receives the packets, as proved by MQTT. |
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I too find that I receive better than transmit, but Ive also found traceroutes to be extremely finnicky. I can frequently get acks back from dms to nodes that I cant get traceroutes back from, and I dont know if it's true or not but it seems like theres some kind of rate limit for traceroute packets, with others being dropped. If I wait a period (usually hours, but thats just how it's worked out), then I'll usually get better traceroute responses. |
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Scoja |
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I was thinking here... -37.9421388298848, 145.2685796847233 |
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I've got the weekend off maybe I'll go for a recon trip I haven't been hiking there since I was a lil one |
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Hey guys! I brought a node to Melbourne with me for the first time yesterday, and was blown away to be picking up the Mt Dandenong node in Laverton - incredible! I'm wondering if a node placed on Mt Warrenheip might be able to contact Dandenong... A dream of mine is linking Ballarat area with Melbourne... Waiting on 3x Rak Wireless boards to come, meanwhile playing with a T Beam and Heltec v3. (estimated coverage for a node on Mt Warenheip) |
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Yeah I saw that Mt Warrenheip is line of sight to Mt Dandenong (Just). Looking at the map you might get a couple of the guys from Geelong too, They can also see MDR. :) Cheers! |
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Sick - I’ll look for a similar antenna and give it a crack! |
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This is the one I used... |
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righto.. this motivates me to replace HHRO temp node in the sistema container stuck to the mast with insulation tape with a proper node and my gizont antenna pictured above... And lets get this mesh rocking! |
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Hi Melbourne. I'm one of the Meshtastic developers and I'm going to be in town this month. Does anyone want to meet up in-person to chat Meshtastic? Maybe in the city? |
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Id be keen! |
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Yes! Yes! Yes! |
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Please see my post below with the pictures regarding an amplified signal in our frequency range that has blown my personal local mesh apart as well as and my secondary hardware on the main channel, I would love your input! |
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@fifieldt any idea what dates you will be here and available? |
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Great job being the first! |
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Amazing work! |
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Hi guys, I'm in Werribee and have been experiencing some pretty unusual rf behaviour in the past 2-3 days. Within our frequency space, there is a new signal source that is absolutely blowing the 1watt limit out of the water and around 60%of all packets i receive are bad and about 35% are just dupes from my mast mounted node. I have observed this signal on the spectrum and can only assume its local as everyone else seemed to still be working normally. Prior to this i had a full node list and excellent direct trace to MDR, Ceres rooftop and Dromana. Now i can only get nodes in my home. I have 8 nodes in total (not all in use) and have tested with each and shut down every rf related device to ensure I'm not the one creating the problem with a faulty module. Nope.
I have invested heavily in the past few months into hardware to link the city and Geelong as well as create another mesh just for werribee. (City to Geelong not yet deployed) at this point in putting everything on hold, the last thing I want to do is repeat this signal mess and make it everyone else's problem too. Any ideas? |
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@Volkor3-16 We should chat before then. Preferred method? Looks like someone doesn't like heltec... I wonder who that could be...
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That's funny! |
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Great news Bangs. Look forward to the pics of the super stealthy solar nodes. Had a trip into Springvale this morning with the added advantage of not driving. I was starting to think my nodes do not working or are setup incorrectly as I did not received any new nodes. That was until I got to Nobel Park and then I managed to get the Dandenong repeater. I suspect this maybe due to no external antennas were used ? |
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Hey brothers. I'm in hospital at the moment so things are on hold very temporarily. Chat soon 😉 |
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Hope you get well soon Bangs |
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I did it @ScoJa71 ! I connected Melbourne to Ballarat / Creswick / Clunes / Talbot / Meredith! I had to use a node on my roof (Heltec V3, hardwired to power) a Wisblock solar node VERY high up in a tree https://meshnode.store/home/27-solar-meshtastic-node-rak-wisblock-inside.html (this exact unit) and another Wisblock solar node with an 8dbi antenna magnetically attached to Mt Buninyong! Mount B reached Mount Dandenong Router - and like that we have a link!
So cool sitting in my living room in Creswick seeing nodes in Geelong and Eastern subburbs of Melbourne - amazing. 
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That's insane!! Well done mate. What's your node ID's? |
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I had plans for the youyangs... if I go ahead with it I'll have to coordinate with you guys. |
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That's a nice hop! 126km! |
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I used your naming system - As it's a router it's "Mt Buninyong Router" with the tower emoji. Short ID is the Tower emoji - and yep it's geo tagged! |
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Nice work!! |
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Does anyone here know who owns Jolly nodes? Specifically the 20 Jolly Leopold Router/Client nodes that have recently appeared. If you do, or you know who does, could you please direct them to one of the many resources to provide support on choosing the nodes role? (https://meshtastic.org/blog/choosing-the-right-device-role/ or https://youtu.be/htjwtnjQkkE?si=RvVxD1cphoHDvo72)? 20 routers (or even just 2) will create collisions and lead to an increased hop count per message not just for you, but anyone else (like me) who is unfortunate enough to be in your immediate (0 hop) vicinity. Just as a reminder to everyone, Client mode is what you want for 99% of deployments. Client mode will still repeat other users packets, it just does so in a more intelligent way (with delays based on received signal strength). Router should only be used in very specific, highly advantageous locations (Mount Dandenong Repeater is the perfect example of this) Apologies for rant. |
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Yes very frustrating, I have one near me chewing up hops! I've tried to make contact a few times with no reply. 🤷 |
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Yeah thinking it's a whole lot more than 20 now... I can see a new node number and user ID almost hourly with the jolL shortname... |
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For anyone who saw my hello world an hour or so ago, thanks :) lovely to see a reply almost instantly. Just got my T-Echo, even with the stock antenna I was seeing all of melbourne! (had to climb on the top of the roof though, so that was fun Now I'm very excited to set up the full sized fiberglass antenna and do some range tests |
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Hey Guys, |
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1st 😉
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