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Base station hardware suggestions (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 days ago by Redwood1@mander.xyz to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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I posted here a couple days ago, but I think my post was removed. Someone accused me of being a bot.... But I'm not a bot. I'm not sure what that's about. Maybe it's the way I write.

Anyway. I want to set up a base station on my house. I looked on the metastatic site and the nearest base station to me is around 25 miles away. Is it possible to reach this far with equipment a mere mortal can possess?

I live on a hill in a marine environment is that helps. I can power it with mains power or set up a solar panel. I would be open to spending a few dollars on the right setup if it means I can connect to the greater network. I'm IT savvy, but a radio noob.

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

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[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Get a nice big antenna, meshtastic has a list on GitHub of their testing results.

https://github.com/meshtastic/antenna-reports

I just ordered one of the bigger antennas, the price was $40 which is higher than they listed it as.

[–] Redwood1@mander.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Thank you. I need to do some measurements and figure out which of these antennas is best, but this is a great list to work from.