Thanks to everyone who posts here and the mod who created the comm.
I first heard of this concept in a thread here on Lemmy. So now learning about it and looking into everything. Thanks guys!!
Welcome! Grab yourself a self contained starter radio and see what’s in your area.
I’ve been having fun with it, ranging around my city seeing where reception is good. I’ve even talked to a couple locals using it and might make them friends. Gonna put up a couple base stations too.
I have no idea which flavor of autism this tickles but it sure tickles mine.
Do you have any recommendations for cheap/simple starters that don’t need a phone?
Wait till you find out about meshcore that runs on the same hardware!
Whole new rabbit hole. Australia has all but entirely moved to meshcore due to the issues with scaling meshtastic in cities
Unfortunately the primary apps and the firmware for some devices is proprietary. That leaves a bad taste in my mouth for a project like this.
I don’t even remember how I learned about Meshtastic. It was just one day I’d never heard of it and the next day I was obsessed and had multiple radios to play with. How I got there? Total mystery.
Yeah, and I can’t even remember what thread I was reading today where a user mentioned it. I was just wondering around. Then a user replied to him by posting a link to this comm, I clicked it, then went out to lunch w friends. Came back and sat down to read it, and here I am. lol
I really want shortwave radio to be cool again and come back. But I guess this is the closest I can get to that concept! lol
Define “cool again”? There are a few more hoops to jump through, but ham radio is alive and well.
It’s not to the level it once was, simply because cell phones are so much more convenient. But me and my buddies are all licensed. I love meshtastic and have several nodes, but APRS can punch much further and is already a significantly not robust existing network. Just less convenient 🤷♂️
