Meshcore success in Northern California

(Update:  I did retrieve the temporary hilltop repeater.  My next stop was in San Francisco and you can read about it 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:

• • 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:

• • 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.