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 😆 I’m pretty new to this.

Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing

I wonder why Meshtastic didn’t just duplicate APRS design for the most part. The routing in APRS seems far superior

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!

I am curious if New Mexico intends to apply HB0038 UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A WEAPON CONVERSION DEVICE to FRTs, because they didn’t use the standard definition for machinegun. For the federal definition, it was determined in carghill that “function of the trigger” related to the trigger itself moving rather than the squeeze of the trigger finger, but this NM definition sounds like it is focused on the action of the finger…

“(1) “fully automatic weapon” means a weapon that shoots, is designed to shoot or can be readily restored to shoot more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single and continuous held pull of the trigger;”

I blew my B3 up, and haven’t made time to rebuild it yet… but I guess the time has come! It really is an awesome design.

I’ve been using APRS with ham radio for quite some time, and was pretty excited when I found out about meshtastic last month. After I picked up a couple of nodes, I was surprised at how many are in my area. The low price point and no licensing requirements makes it easy to get friends involved. I’m putting together a couple of ~$25 solar nodes to stick on the top of a couple nearby mountains to vastly extend the reach of the local network.

Do you know of any meshtastic communities on lemmy? I just joined today and am still trying to find my way around…