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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