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[–] MadBits@europe.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Both of us use different antennas (literally scrap), we use meshstatic with raspberries.

This will be of much help if you're looking to get started: https://meshtastic.org/docs/hardware/

Also 300km is indeed almost obstacle free, there's lots of villages and forests in between but one of the antenna is located on 12th floor of a building in a city. Coverage is not really the issue, even inside the city with all interference, we did manage to establish a proper connection within 3km, one antenna on 4th floor and the other one on the first floor with lots of tall buildings in between. (Worked much better than expected)

Mad fun project to get started with, highly recommended. Is it of much use? Not yet, not really. But we are planning on pumping up the power a little bit, add a few more nodes and hopefully we will be able to deploy a Lemmy or something and step by step we will create our own shitty "undernet".

[–] phx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Nice. At the moment I'm looking at using ESP based LilyGo devices since they're fairly cheap and power efficient. The plan is to set them up in places where they can run off solar power during the day and if I get enough people onboard we can relay off each other.

The tech itself seems cheap and effective enough that it might be good for situations like i.e. the protests in MS where having a phone or other device with too much personal info - or subject to tracking -might be less desirable. It could also be good in situations like we've seen in other countries wherein the government cuts off Internet access