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Did a little fox hunt for one of my area's local mountain repeaters. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 6 days ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz
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Found it successfully. Crazy how this tiny box strapped to a tree with a simple whip antenna can reach out like 12-15 miles.

The node (took me like 20 min to find it in this tree):

The view from the node:

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Its a solar node. The face of it is a solar panel you just can't see it from the angle I took a pic.