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I still have not found time to mess around with meshtastic. I guess part of the reason is needing to buy hardware to do so..

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>I first heard about Meshtastic from a blog post that made the rounds on Hacker News. The author lived on a boat and used Meshtastic radios to stay in touch without cellular networks. Meshtastic allows you to send short text messages (around 200 characters) over long ranges without cell towers or satellites. It works by creating a mesh network of low-power LoRa devices that relay messages on behalf of peers. Because it uses license-free radio frequencies (in the ~915 MHz ISM band), no ham license is required.

I still have not found time to mess around with meshtastic. I guess part of the reason is needing to buy hardware to do so.. Archive: https://archive.today/R5ABH From the post: >>I first heard about Meshtastic from a blog post that made the rounds on Hacker News. The author lived on a boat and used Meshtastic radios to stay in touch without cellular networks. Meshtastic allows you to send short text messages (around 200 characters) over long ranges without cell towers or satellites. It works by creating a mesh network of low-power LoRa devices that relay messages on behalf of peers. Because it uses license-free radio frequencies (in the ~915 MHz ISM band), no ham license is required.
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Interesting. Didn’t know that you could passively see public like groups.

I’d say that it likely is Feds getting in early to see if they can snare someone.

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The mesh has a couple of options. There's the "public channels" named for the encryption type they use. "LongFast" is the most common and used because it's apparently optimized for the system at hand. Anyone can send and receive on these channels. The mesh also has MQTT channels you can attach to that are fairly fine grain.

There are varying levels of talk below that, you can message a single node, or just set your node so it can't be messaged. I assume that if you have someone's key you can still talk to them in this mode, but I have no one to talk to except for the one that sits on my homeassistant computer and sends notices to my mobile unit.

You can turn off the public channel receives, but I leave them on. I hear stuff all the time, but most of it is just "TEST" or someone who turned on range test and didn't realize it spams a device. I've tried to open conversations by talking about local events, but no replies.

I think the longest conversation I had was with someone at the Fort Wayne Hamfest, and that was a guy that was running a panel on meshnodes.

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So could we have a poal channel and then broadcast niggerfaggot every hour on the hour? Then get a roll call?

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You could but that’s a waste of time. Don’t preach to the choir, broadcast niggerfaggot on long fast. I doubt many know you can mute nodes.