I am going to look into this. what do you think?
This seems like it would be great for out on a farm/ranch without a lot of connectivity or in coordinated firefighting or rescue efforts.
It's cheap enough to have a lot of nodes and easy enough to use... It could get real-time data to people that otherwise would be just out on their own not knowing what is going on otherwise. It could be a life saver.
[edit] You know, you could strap one of these onto a "heavy" quad(drone) or a tethered balloon and extend the range like crazy depending on how long you can keep it in the air.. Add more than one.. That mesh becomes solid.
I been looking for something like this as well for what you described.
Guess Ill keep you in mind when I post random stuff about mesh and amateur radio too.
I am considering building/buying two of these just for putting in my and my Wife's car to have comm's when we are in the middle of fuck-all nowhere. That would be nice. Epically since you don't need to be HAM certified for it.
Have beofngs in each vehicle, external antenna can be deployed (can’t find the killer window clip ones anymore you can shut in the window) So if need more range.
Lora Lilly decks in each car also.
GMRS repeater at the house, and a Lora repeater.
I don’t ham, never got the license. Should go do the tests and get my tech.
GMRS repeater is for the entire neighborhood also. Some areas hard to get cell, but the repeater makes that work if on tractors or the utes.
Dog has a Tractive works great for the yearly price.
Just need the automated turrets. A drone jammer is on the list to do a kikedome over the house to disrupt any drones, seen that setup online. Have a propane tank meter targeted also, when goes down 100gal fire off email to provider to fill.
All faucets are freeze proof aquaphora ones, so for the most part this place is on cruise control 24/7/365.
Have water valves in a box haven’t installed: if no movement in house for 18 hrs, turn off water house side of softener.
Have a diagram for using 2”, 24v sprinkler valves for a rain water collect diverter, with pressure pump and pressure tank, and even return line to well house to fill the well water holding tank with rain water in wet times. All double uv filtered, with auto cutoff if uv light dies. Half that shit is waiting to get to install…maybe this winter.
And the remote cameras around the property, via buried cat6 direct burial, emt the tree, painted to match. Just scatter a few on poe to monitor the blond spots and “game” paths…
Don’t forget the adsb listener, and a weather station.
No I am not going to do sizemic sensors. Don’t need to overkill it :)
My take on that - yeah, the guy built a push-to-talk network that talks over IP. I mean...the phone on my desk does that. Nextel did that decades ago over iDEN. That in no way makes the phone on my desk equivalent to a military radio, nor does it make the whatscrapp voice chat on your phone military-grade. He talks about getting a call and "the military" asked for his input. No they didn't, they were probing to make sure you really didn't do anything except create an IP voice chat service. The fact that you didn't Dilithium Crystal Vanish means they got a laugh and went away.
The military radio has encryption that would make your eyes water and melt. It has access to bands that you only dream of. It has to be able to survive nearby nukes. You think it's hard Tony ain't even going to show up for this one.
The advantage to mesh devices is that you don't need separate networking infrastructure. The mesh nodes talk amongst themselves. I guess the equivalent would be VOIP phones that don't need ethernet, routers, switches, etc, with the limitation that the phones can only call other phones in the immediate area.
Sure, and that's an acceptable (and excellent) use case - but the "I made a military radio" claim is BS.
"I made a radio system that works like the military's mesh radios" would be better.
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