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Welcome fellow gophernauts. Once again it is (or was) September |
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which means it's ROOPHLOCH [1] month! Also unsurprisingly, it's |
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down to the wire for my entry this year. |
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I'm looking forward to reading all the entries this year; there's |
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always some novel approaches that inspire me to try something new. |
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For my attempt this year, I wanted to experiment with LoRa and see |
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if it could work using readily available equipment and software. |
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So I just took a Heltec v3 and a Lilygo T-Deck, wired up some |
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batteries, threaded on a couple stubby rubber duck antennas, and |
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printed some cases for them (this took longer than expected). Then |
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they were flashed with Meshtastic. I put the Heltec on a shelf |
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near a window and took the T-Deck for a bike ride to see how it |
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got along. The post is below: |
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Posting via meshtastic down the road at the farm. Surprisingly |
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works just fine here. Pretty neat to be sending this license free |
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while toodling about on the bike. |
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Just for grins trying this from the T-Deck by the old bridge. |
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Wow better signal from here over the hill. Anyways I'm off to |
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enjoy my ride. It's a little warm but great right now before the |
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rains. |
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----------------------------SNIP------------------------------ >8 |
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I'm excited that this worked well using the unlicensed band and |
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low power running regular meshtastic. Once I returned I just |
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slurped the messages off the home device and pushed them here. |
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Hopefully I can come up with an automated way to post using a |
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tailposter like the APRS attempt to make this a bit more |
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streamlined. I'll have to push the limits of the distance too and |
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see how far I can communicate before it starts getting spotty, but |
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a couple miles wasn't a chore at all. |
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I also picked up a pager with regional service in an attempt to |
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wean me off the smartphone, and to provide a single contact |
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point now that there's a staffing change underway. It's an old |
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refurbished Motorola, and it's not 100% but I'll use it and see |
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how it goes long term. I've already got some ideas on automating |
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some alerts to send and some basic information while out and |
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about. |
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Anyways, I better get this posted before October rolls in. And |
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once again, happy ROOPHLOCH! |
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Tags: #roophloch #meshtastic #lora #cycling #pager #motorola #advisor |
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[0] Text-only version |
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[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/announcing-roophloc… |
