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So, I setup meshtastic.
Put an antenna on my roof.
Have a decent number of mesh radios. Put one in each car in relay mode.
Setup a locally run LLM and made an interface to it.
Working on setting up a BBS.
I'm in the high density suburbs, I can, when the weather is just right, reach a single node that doesn't seem to be able to reach any other nodes.
If I go on a drive, I can see 5-10 nodes.
Adoption in the mid-Atlantic US is just so damn low, it's not really usable.
We need some antennas up high, but there aren't any reasonable options around me.