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The Idiots Guide To Meshtastic - Long Range Comms!
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Hey all, it's Stu from Rivington. I had a great time chatting to a group of people including Jim and the Lighthouses culminating in about 40 new node contacts. I'll definitely be doing it again in the future but plan on trying a Yagi and also a 433mhz node.
Just ordered 2x Lora V3's from AliExpress so there'll be 2 new nodes up and running in Chorley soon 👍🏼
These Meshtastic adventures are exciting, going to try and get a mesh started here in my corner of the US - Oregon and the PNW! Keep the videos coming!
I'm in PDX, just got my Heltec V3 up & running today. No idea what I'm doing yet though!
Where in Oregon ?
@@lenninmonroy570 near the Portland area.
Hi Lewis, good stuff, many thanks. Our radio club 'Wirral Amateur Radio Society' G3NWR, has been operating from Bidston for many years, when there have been special event oportunities using GB2BHL. All from inside the lighthouse ,with the very kind permission of it's present owner who lives actually onsite. Again many thanks.
Oh brilliant! Please pass my video on to the owner :) I’d love to hear from him. Thanks so much
@@RingwayManchester okay will do thanks
And to add, WADARC (Wirral & District Amateur Radio Club) that operate from Leasowe Light House.
This reminds me of when I got my Radio Amateurs License back in 1980. I used to ping the repeater and listen in to random calls. A few months later my set was nicked from my TR7 (police said that whoever stole it thought it was a CB set) and I never replaced it. Meshtastic reminds me of the same scenario, lot of enthusiasts sending 'Hello world" messages to each other just to see who is the furthest away. 👍
These Meshtastic adventures of yours are fantastic, Lewis.
I'm getting a couple heltec radios soon over in Minneapolis (usa). I imagine I'll have to work quite hard to get contacts here. Your videos make me quite envious, although maybe there's a meshtastic community around me that I just don't know about
Im in Saint Paul, just waiting for my Rak radio to arrive and get on the air😊
Well, Andy & Lewis have me intrigued. I am in the Catskill's of NY at 1700 feet above sea level with a clean opening to Boston & New Jersey as well as NYC.
There are hardly any people where I am but I might be the bridge to my East & South East were I to install at least one device.
In March or April once its no longer like Siberia here I'll give it a go & see what comes out if it.
Great footage as always. Thanks Lewis for the effort you put in !
Much appreciated!
I wonder how feasible it would be to make solar powered nodes to deploy around an area? Have the radio. electric bits, and a battery and for night time power inside a weather proof housing with a decent antenna and a big enough solar panel to power the device and keep the battery topped off so it could be running 24/7. It would be really cool to set up a handful of these "stations" around the community and a proper mesh system.
That's what I'm thinking of doing at my house and on a couple of friends properties. Shouldn't be too hard or too expensive.
If you're doing low power, NRF52840 based boards are your best bet. Wisblocks are probably the best direction to go. The ESP32s pull a lot of power and aren't really easily sustained on solar.
This was great. I love the way you put it together too I'm going to have to try one in the states. In my non existent free time.
Amazing video and adventure, wish I could have came along! proper inspiring stuff 😊
Thanks n
I'll see about getting a node added in the Hope Valley, Peak District, UK. That should link Manchester with Sheffield....hopefully.
Looking to stick a couple in Matlock so might connect if lucky!!!!
Got mine just a day ago... going to make it work soon! Who knows, someday we'll make contact from Holland to UK!
Really nice video mate, good cinematography, great content, really high production values, I’m jealous! Keep up the good work!
Thanks a ton!
I love this channel. Lewis always shares great views of England. I feel like I take a mini vacation, when I watch. Always learning something new about Ham Radio, and even some interesting history! 😊
Great luck with getting that Beluga! We don''t really see them in the US that much, and I'm not near anywhere the Dreamlifters usually fly.
Thank You for great content and historical tour of the surrounding area.
Great vlog/production, you're really stirring up the interest for Meshtastic. I'm hoping to have one set up in Sheffield soon. I'm the highest house on my hill so hopefully I'll get some good coverage. My ADS-B receiver nearly covers the whole of the UK so I'm hoping to mount my LoRa antenna up on the same pole 🤞
I’m setting up a couple of nodes down in Matlock soon, maybe we’ll get a bridge in chesterfield and connect up, we’ll see!!
You make soo good drone piotures Lewis! Beatiful to look at! ; The best from LB1NH in Oslo Norway! 🙂
Wow, thank you!
Brilliant video Lewis! I see starter kits are available for very little money here in Switzerland. Now watching your idiot's guide... All the best, Rob
Great stuff Lewis. It took just 2 days to get my Heltecs from Amazon 😊 just wish there were a few other nodes in the wilds of North Yorkshire!
Nice Beluga spotting at the 4:55 mark, rare bird that one
I have some Meshtastic kit on order. Great video thanks.
Awesome! Thank you!
I’d love to visit Halton Castle one of these days. I’d love to visit anywhere in the UK.
As soon as i saw the thumbnail i instantly thought Leasowe. Did you visit the green hut cafe for a brew?
Wirral amateur radio club used to operate from lighthouse(not sure it they still do)
Hey! I’d didn’t see the cafe! I would have otherwise
:-( from leasowe lighthouse follow the road back to the main road. Turn left at the end and into the car park.
Ah I see! Maybe next time.
Great video Lewis, just learning about this Meshtastic thing, interesting! I actually took my Amateur Radio License exams in Leasowe Lighthouse about 10 years ago. The Carolina Windom HF antenna was in use then too
I have 8 nodes strewn out around my city with 10 more coming. I’m naming them all Kyle except 1. I named 1 Lewis.
I really need to get into Meshtastic and both set up a node at home where I'm about 350ft ASL and have a great takeoff across the West Midlands. It will share the same location as my GB7EZ repeater. It will also be good fun to have one in the back of my car with a small Yagi to take out when I'm portable.
Another great video, Lewis - thanks!
Another fantastic video Lewis - meshtastic certainly seems to taking off! The drone shots really add to it.
Could this really turn into modern day CB? First node seen today which wasn't my own. Maybe I'll build some 868MHz antenna next weekend. Enjoy watching your adventures on Meshtastic! 73!
Possibly! I hope so! Cheers
At those distances, you'd be fine with a well tuned omni. You're isolating the signal quite a bit with that yaggi and actually reducing your mesh coverage. But the fun is always the journey! Great videos!
I just got a node last week thanks to yours videos and now you make a video in Wirral where im based! Seems to be quite a few of us locals, need to replace my included antenna!
Absolutely fantastic. What a great place for a radio club. Meshtastic never ceases to amaze. And that pub sounds great too.
73 M7TUD
Cheers Paul as always
It was me replying from Irby but my Heltec had reset and lost the node name lol Also my mate in Greasby with the original 1st Bender case!
Superb! Cheers!
Got my Mashtastic Lora setup today. Not a single node in my location, Carlisle. Looked at buying another online, 868 boards sold out everywhere. Hopefully I will find one or someone will setup another in Carlisle. Btw, tried to join your Facebook group..
I do have access to a good centre of town location, to setup a central node, when I get another LoRa.
I am fascinated by this new LoRa/ Meshtastic format. I not sure of LoRa's presence over here in West Coast Canada. But I learned that LoRa is a thing here too. I may build my own 800 MHz Yagi to use with my RTL-SDR to see or hear telltale signs of LoRa signals.
There is a small presence! I'm out in a bit of a blank area though. If you want to find the nodes on SDR you should be targeting 915mhz range (902-928)
good work fella. I'm getting hooked now. I have one of the first NanoVNA's from when I was messing about with 2m70cm, WiFi, and ADSB antennas. Working on a Meshtastic J-Pole made from an SMA pigtail idea now lol. I best get a device on order then.
Do you know, is there a way to get a node to bridge the various transmission modes? It would be helpful for starting hops on "VERY_LONG_SLOW" because you're way out and then having the closer "city nodes" take over on "LONG_FAST" when the mesh is tighter knit...
Private MQTT server and then republish packets between the 2 channels.
@@AndrewJonesMcGuire That's what I was starting to think. Seems like something that would be good to build into the firmware at some point. A "long to short repeater mode" as a disabled-by-default option. After all, in the USA at least, 1/5th of the population is rural. It'd be good to keep rural and city connected in "mesh is needed" events.
Hi Lewis, Great Video, Nice to see some of these node locations, fascinating, I see you on my mesh dashboard this morning :-)
Interesting video Lewis. Used to work in Runcorn and have climbed that hill to the castle many times.
Thanks as always Nigel
Great video yet again, thank you! - I really like your style, radio stuff mixed with interesting facts about the environment, fascinating lighthouses. Wouldn't you want to live in that observatory? As an avgeek it was worth watching for the Beluga alone. Gotta get a Meshtastic device, even though I am very pessimistic here in Lapland (commuting between Sweden and Finland) I doubt I get much out of it... Cheers! 👍😎
Is there a map of meshtastic nodes? I'd love to get one, but don't completely understand the use cases and I'm not sure if there are nodes near me..
Great videos! Thank you. I hope to see England one day It is beautiful there.
I went out in the car for first time Sunday with my tdeck. Picked up a couple of nodes 40 miles away across Lyme bay. This with a paradar 5.5 omni. I was pretty high though on abbotsbury hill.
great view from always ringway. i like the vlog style of you filming the drive in your car and then the music and video of the area around the castle. good stuff ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it thanks so much
I moved away from Liverpool 15 years ago and seeing that skyline with fiddlers ferry and the old Runcorn bridge makes me feel like I'm nearly home. It was a shit hole, but it was my shit hole❤😂
I LOVE Liverpool! I'm a Brummie but it is almost like my spiritual home. The people are wonderful and I go there a few times a year just for a break for a couple of days.
great content as ever. Almost line of sight for me to Bidston, but not quite! Based towards Chester, nothing on the T-Echo but looking to put up a repeater soon.
Great video Lewis, I will have to get out and about and do some portable tests when my 868 boards finally get here.
You say theres a link to meshtastic in the description, but theses not :) Also whats the link to the Facebook page dedicated to these ?
What about meshtastic from a drone with a 4G capable device ? To move « anywhere fast » would it be great or stupid with limited drone range ?
Stay tuned
Thanks RM for the Informative Trip and the History Lesson. Great Video. Take Care and Radio On****
Great effort on the video Lewis, well chuffed to see my little node on the tv screen.
Would you mind telling me what the music is called in the first half of this video? Used to hear it a lot in youtube videos but never actually discovered the track. Also i love your usage of dnb on this channel, fits the rf genre well me thinks.
I can’t remember! It’s in my media library in my edit software, I can’t for the Life of me find the file.
@@RingwayManchester ah thats a shame, well thanks for checking.
Got it! It’s Called thank you RGE
@@RingwayManchester awesome, legend as always
I'd love to get some nodes up here as well. Very cool!
You should! Thanks as always
just got into LoRa/Meshtastic today and still learning and looking what model to buy. But regarding your video: with the small form factor of Transceiver, what about a small helium ballon if you can't afford a light house ;-) that should also work just fine on your own property and should be legal as of my knowledge
2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please!
Not heard that in years! 😂
I would use a
Clover leaf antenna
omni 360° directional antenna
Vertical and horizontal (radio propagation) Both are supported
Interesting video thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching
interesting and simple to use, my FPV race drone uses lora protocol for long range control on 868Mhz with up to 1 watt power if I so chose it although Im sure that wouldn't be legal
Hi from Algeria, i'm hoping to get started on meshstastic too, cool video, LoRa might bring some life in the dying hobby of radio amateur
When I hear “Wirral” I think HMHB…😂👍
A Meshtastic Adventure!
WOOT!
This is so cool, I wish Meshtastic was active at all in ZL. I check around every few months, and there just seems to be zero interest in it.
Interesting stuff.
I’ve seen a few videos before.
It seems the area is hilly as per where I am, you need to think about bouncing signals hill top to hill top or other high vantage point. From the highest hills here it’s possible to see for many miles in every direction. There’s a monument on one of them and this can be seen from most of the low points surrounding. There’s also 2 transmitting towers up there which I believe are tetra.
I assume there’s no real reason why it wouldn’t be possible to get signals across the Severn, between England & wales….and ultimately with high vantage points, across the English Channel into France.
In a similar way, maybe have an antenna on the Isle of Wight which could be seen from a great % of the south coast….in the same way freeview tv is broadcasting from there to the south of England.
Now, tap into the Lora Sats and play with us big boys :) Great video btw
Tell me more
Lora sats? You've peaked my curiosity
@@RingwayManchester th-cam.com/video/Z83ihDBL1M8/w-d-xo.html
Whats that?
@@RingwayManchester Just do a Google search and you will find it - pretty cool :)
Just had a couple of boards delivered, some point over the next couple of weeks I shall experiment with them a little, then one of them gets waterproof housing, decent antenna, solar power supply and gets to live at the top of my mobile phone mast :)
5:55 I was assuming it was turned into a pub, too. 😂
I envy you all. Nothing like this in North Texas yet.
Nice video. Is this china Yagi really a proper choice? I doubt it, there aren't good Yagi for 868mhz available at Ali. A logper antenna would be more suitable when using a LTE antenna.
I did 53km today with a small 3d printed moxon antenna line of sight.
150km shouldn't be a problem for lora with sf9.
There’s one in my attic receiving those boxes directly 80km away
I Would Use Clover leaf antenna
More Omi 360° and omi Horizontal & Vertical Both propagation
My pal goes up there quite often, for scanner listening...
cant help but notice But We in UK Can also use 433MHz & 868MHz both ARE UK license free
be handy Setting up Duel Band Nodes (Bridge nodes)
Nice work again Lewis👌
I wonder if you could end up adding a garden light solar panel or two lol for a high clandestine take off....remote station
your description doesn't have a link to what meshtastic is :(
Corrected
Aaah I got stu up rivi also first time I've had any contacts from home.
i did range testing with my Lilygo t-deck and my heltec v3, i didn't even get 200 feet away. it was line of site, i don't get it. i live in the county setting. no hills flat open ground. Line of site not even a block away. what am i doing wrong. didn't hardly got out of the driveway. ant ideas ?
Can a node be connected to the wifi so can connect the app with phone. Could put a node in the loft
Hoping to get into it soon
I could plug a hole in the node map
I have watched many videos about meshtastic. A freind asked me about the software used to communicate through the mesh. I told him it is text only, no picture or voip, and ONLY using the specific mesh text software. Am I correct?
And can private chat groups be setup or is it all a public chat?
That’s true
Majestic!
How do you log your stations / contacts?
In the app
@@RingwayManchester Yes but I meant it in a keep track/ make a note / add them to a list kind of way.
Oh i love whwre iive, Wallasey Village and its surrounding places of Beauty!
Love seeing the footage every time you visit.
You'll no dount see my base relay, WLV, It can see yours.
73
Sean de 2E0SYA
Maan i rly cant wait to get my radios
Love the video Lewis! - James
Thanks brother
Where did you get the multiple element LoRa Yagi?
Did you change the power of the radio? I thought it’s only 25mw not 100mw as you said.
No they’re 100mw
Does mesh apps for deactivated smart phone work? Has anyone tried this method? What's were your results? Thanks
One of your best!
Sort of looks like how I would imagine VanDraven House. Kinda, Sorta, definitely not as ominous.
meh. setup a node in germany (ruhr area, Essen) - but no single client or other node around. (having a good spot ontop a hill, in a high-rise building, so coverage should not be a problem) -- i guess meshtastic is as dead as packet radio and CB... :/
Have you tried attaching a device to a drone and sending it up to test the range?
So w ho is selling these devices in the US?
cant even buy the hardware, its all out of stock and not available to ship to new zealand. i doubt the meshtastic project will take off when hardware supply chain is a cluster to say the least.....
Lost cause;
Poulsbo, Washington
Latitude: 47° 44' 9.35" N
Longitude: -122° 38' 47.54" W
Put your node on your drone. I bet you’d get more contacts.
Like the music
I still don’t understand what it is. Even though I watched your video explaining it 🤦♀️ Looks fun though
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