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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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Your chances of getting anyone to even notice you on 2M if you jump on and use a channel for 5 minutes is not even on the radar.

Asshats spam the Hamvention talk-in and no one pays it attention.