I previously posted here about building a TinyGS earth station. It’s now been running for three weeks and I am happy with the results. I am seeing packets on a regular basis as satellites pass overhead and everything seems to be working OK! The antenna I am using is not ideal – a wideband discone […]

I’ve previously played about with Meshtastic. I run two Meshtastic nodes from my home as permanent infrastructure contributing to the mesh on the South Coast. Currently this consists of two Heltec V3 nodes, one configured with an omni-directional antenna and one with a directional antenna pointing a a hilltop near my home. This configuration was […]

So I had an interesting discussion on discord with some of the other local mesh contributors about why Meshtastic modules seem to perform poorly in locations which should be great such as the top of local hills. One theory is the abundance of other communication devices here could be interfering with the modules which are […]

I have two Meshtastic nodes mounted on top of a mast as infrastructure to contribute to the mesh. You can read about the solution here. Yesterday I updated the firmware on the nodes from 2.4 to 2.5…. The only problem is that during the upgrade the nodes factory reset and also disabled the serial interface […]

It’s only temporary…. unless it works! I’ve been interested in Meshtastic for a while now. Meshtastic uses low power LoRa devices which are license free to build a distributed RF mesh communications network. I have several of these devices however the area where I live is not well served with meshtastic nodes. So it’s time […]