Anyone in Montreal area?

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I am 100% new to Meshtastic. I have a bunch of devices coming in the mail, which I am excited to test out. I also have two outdoor antennas I want to set up to cover the village where I live (a pretty small village).

It would be cool to find some existing nodes in my area to connect to. I did a search for “Montreal” on here and nothing came up. When looking at meshmaps, I don’t see any nodes in Montreal and surrounding areas. I have no idea how complete that map is though.

Is anyone on here from the Montreal area? Can I expect to see an existing network when I start trying out my devices?

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Hi, also waiting delevery of a meshtastic device, will see what is on the air in Montreal, I am in the North East part of Montreal

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I just made an order for 2 devices as well. I live in Laval.

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Hello, I am on the South Shore of Montreal (St-Bruno). I am planning to order one meshtastic device.

Talk to you soon

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Hello, I forgot to ask, which device have you ordered?

And which band are you planning to use?

  • 433 MHz
  • 470 - 510 MHz
  • 863 - 870 MHz
  • 902 - 928 MHz

Thanks
Eric

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@Taldos Depending on where you are in Laval you might be somewhat close. I am in Oka. I was thinking of setting up a local MQTT topic as well, to bridge the gaps in the area.

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@cyberic68 which band you use depends on where you are. Different regions have different bands that are legal. North America (so Canada as well) is 902-928. (also often referred to as 915 Mhz), so that’s the one you need to use. Also look at this when ordering a device, because you need a device specific to the frequency.

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On the south shore here in Saint Constant. Just got two Heltec V3s and have a RAK kit in the mail that I’ll setup on my roof as a repeater.

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I’m in laval-des-rapides. If my first tests are success full, I’m looking to set up repeaters at some family’s residence across the island.

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@wkjagt & @mzac It set up the first on the roof. I see both of yours on the map (map.mpowered247.com) - I added mine on the map as well

------ My Configuration-------
Location: laval-des-rapides
Node name: GGH
Node name Short: GGH
Frequency: 915
Region: US ( in Settings)
Channel Number: 20 (Radio Configuration → LoRa → “Channel Number”)

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That doesn’t look like my node, I will try and get my RAK setup on the roof this weekend as I finally got all my parts. If you see node Meshtastic_a193 in Saint-Constant that will be me.

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I’ve got a node set up in the plateau, hoping to find someone downtown high up to relay to NDG! we also have a mesh networking group if anyone is interested. https://foulab.org/

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Hi All,

I live in Longueuil near the cegep…

Just ordered the Station G2:

and an antenna:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006028563058.html

Planning on installing it in my vehicle, on 24/7… so I’m gonna have a moving node!

Backstory: I wanted a more powerful solution that would follow me. Aiming to extend comm to 50km or so, if possible. Considered older tech, like ham radio (too complicated), CB and walkies (too weak), satellite messengers (too subscription based) and starlink (too $$$$). So LoRa it is.