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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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[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think you make a good point, there's a lot of overlap right now with Chattanoogas LF>MF switch and Atlanta's LF bridge. Unfortunately most of the time that overlap occurs as someone in ATL jumping on the LF bridge just to give a kind of seemingly mocking "you guys are still on LF?" Once the MF switch is completed the MF channel will be a huge mix of several cities and probably be too crowded for effective use of sharing localized info. I think it would be a great idea for cities to discuss/implement channels for use of locally specific conversation.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I was just using Atlanta as an example. I just chose it out of nowhere. It could have just as easily been San Francisco or Chicago.

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

I understand lol but your example wasn't too far off from reality