(Update: I did retrieve the temporary hilltop repeater. My next stop was in San Francisco and you can read about it here. The repeater has now been installed at a location in Summit County, Colorado as you can read about here.)
I am a ways north of Santa Rosa, California at a temporary location in a house near Healdsburg. At the house, none of my devices was able to detect any local Meshtastic or Meshcore (web page, Wikipedia page) device. Driving around in nearby towns, I was unable to detect any local Meshtastic or Meshcore device.
I went to the top of a nearby hill that is about 4 miles away. At right you can see the view from that hill. From that hill, I was able to:
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- reach several of my own devices at the house directly, and
- reach lots of Meshcore devices.
So I have placed a Meshcore solar repeater on that hill, temporarily. You can see the repeater at right, with its solar panel and its antenna.
Now from the house I am able to communicate with lots of repeaters and nodes, as seen on the map at the top of the blog posting. I have about 130 contacts.
From the house, I am able to log in directly at my solar repeater on that hill, and I get these numbers:
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- noise floor is -116 dB,
- battery is 66% (3.8V),
- temperature is 51 degrees F.
In a day or two I will return to the hill and retrieve my repeater.
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