I wonder why Meshtastic didn't just duplicate APRS design for the most part. The routing in APRS seems far superior
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joined 2 months ago
My Wio Tracker L1 Pro came with the rp connector, if I understand it correctly. The antenna has a center socket, while the device has a pin in the center.
I've only been using mine for a week or so with the factory antenna. Range doesn't seem much better than my T1000-e with an internal antenna. I've been eyeballing a 10dbi whip that was recommended by others; it is not an rp, but it is $14 and comes with the appropriate ipex connector.
I haven't heard anything about the discontinuation of the T1000-e, and that would surprise me.. It costs about $7 more than their website, but you can buy them from the seeed Amazon store with two-day shipping, at least in the US.
Gotta make it a flip open device for full effect!
Yeah, I was misremembering exactly how APRS worked. I had a higher power mobile in my vehicle set up to digipeat packets from my handheld, but I guess that most mobile/handheld APRS radios are not digipeating. I just liked that with APRS the repeating stations name was appended to the packet, and I also liked that you could specify a path if desired.
Sometimes I am using meshtastic with just a couple of nodes in the middle of nowhere, and it currently works great for that. But at my house I've got a rooftop node, and then there is a mountaintop repeater many miles away that the rooftop node can hit, and a static node in FarAwayTown on the other side of the mountain. If I were able to set a path to "hop3" in the first scenario, but change it to "rooftop,mountaintop,FarAwayTown,hop3", it would allow me to communicate to those in FarAwayTown without bogging down the local mesh. I was pretty stoked that I could create solar meshtastic nodes to stick on a rooftop or nearby mountaintop for less than $20 to extend range, but doing so seems to cause a lot of congestion locally.
Then again, it is likely that I have no idea what I am talking about and need to study up on meshtastic ๐ I'm pretty new to this.