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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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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I haven't had that problem in my area, we are remote and there's so few nodes that most everyone keeps using long-fast default channel zero for mesh-wide communication.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, we live in a city of about 50,000 people, but normally our mesh is quite isolated. But once in a while you'll get a band opening that will bring in a bunch more nodes and you'll start to get that problem with broken conversations coming in on long fast. On a normal non-band opening day, we generally see somewhere between about 8 and 13 nodes when there is a band opening though that can skyrocket into the 50s and 60s really quickly.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Interesting. I guess I'm so isolated overall that even band openings do not allow any other nodes into the mesh.

I also have almost exactly 13 nodes online right now, as a matter of fact.

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

Sounds like you know what people's birthday and Christmas presents will be then.