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Matt Hamilton

My Chinesium LoRa Lilygo T-Echos and T-keyboards finally arrived on the slow boat. I’ve already selected and trimmed up my future antenna repeater trees.

I’ll get around to setting up JS8call on my Linux tablet at some point, but I have to cross compile it for arm and that’s a headache I don’t have time to deal with right now. Good summer project when it’s too hot and humid to be doing lots outside.

@eriner
Will you use it for messaging only? I'm considering trying this project but I don't know if there are enough people using it in my area

@Laurel Yes, my use case is line-of-sight communication devices that I will distribute and provide static relays for. I'm not using an open network or relying on others to relay my messages.

@eriner I'm building out a meshtastic mesh here in Brisbane. Glad to see you're on the LoRa boat bro!

For a solar node I can't recommend RAK wireless with the nrf chip init enough tiny power usage and nearly pro level pcb quality. Onboard solar input for under 6v panels and heaps of modular sensors available. Check them out if you haven't come across them yet in your LoRa travels mate

@thadius I'm sure they're great, but I also have a few T-Beams, tons of TP4056 boards, many 18650s, many lifepo4s, etc.

I need to set my 3d printer up again and get it rolling on some cases for the t-beams and t-keyboards though.

@eriner
Ooh, we have these! I asked for some type of texty-talky so I don't die in the woods or dangle from my tree stand alone...and now we are working on some meshtastic stuff :)