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Use of (city) channels (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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Hello, is anyone else making use of city channels such as

Name: Atlanta
Key: AQ==

to give a more local public group and mute LongFast, etc? The reason I ask is because we got a band opening this morning and I was trying to chat with some of the locals and broken conversation messages from the band opening were coming in to the chat on LongFast. It got me to thinking that it may not be very polite to have conversations on LongFast when you could reserve it for travelers and airplanes similar to CB Channel 19.

Meshcore has something similar, they call region scopes, where their repeaters can be set to repeat all messages and region specific messages. And if a repeater is not set to repeat region specific messages, then if it receives them, they will be dropped and not be forwarded on.

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[–] fratermus@piefed.social 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

to give a more local public group and mute LongFast, etc?

Our local MT longfast channel was infested with traffic from abandoned nodes. One of them was relaying MQTT traffic from other continents. We ended up going to MC but I suspect making a local channel would have worked fine also.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that could have worked. I actually did create a local channel for my area, and then I've muted long fast. And it's working out pretty well.