Deleted post due to abuse via the mesh

[adingbatponder]

Abuse from !75e9aa24 so post closed. Many thanks to all who helped test the ranges and messages.

[kd1]

Message from Kidderminster is me KD1 longname “Kidderminster node dipole”
I’ve been replying every time you post on longfast but never seam to get out
I live in a extremely rf noisy environment currently with water meters jamming meshtastic so that definitely doesn’t help

Looking at your screen shot I never got your reply
Here a screen shot of my end like I’ve said meshtastic or any radio for that matter is extremely hit and miss here

[kd1]

Here’s a trace route I just managed to get

[adingbatponder]

Hi. Thanks for replying. Yours is the first message I have received via meshtastic. A momentous day in my holiday… Indeed I am thinking that the mesh requires multiple attempts and the fact that a message arrives somewhere has no correlation with the chance of a REPLY to that message being able to received by the sender. This is the first time I see this effect. In Munich where we are meshing everything (see here Solar node for top of tall building ) and here for a coverage map ( Meshtastic Munich good locations - Google My Maps ) … I simply do not get this. There is a whatsapp group in Munich for the Mesh - so we know if there is a problem with messages not getting back and forth. Though to be fair, the distances involved here in Gloucestershire are far larger. I am beginning to thing there is an optimum average node separation for 27 dB power that I am using. Or perhaps your point is the key: in the UK that frequency might be full of all sorts of transmission used by other non-meshers. I see lots of antennae on all sorts of kit in the UK (water stations, electricity sub-stations… )
Thanks again…

[kd1]

I believe that interference combined with just the distances causes problems with meshtastic i did a test from pwellheli to Barmouth north wales and messages were going back and forth fine most likely because it was a over water path

I would love to put a node up on a tower block here but most are going to be demolished in the next few years

If my dad was still working I could probably get away with putting a node at some of the utility sites he used to look after especially the ones up on hills

Also trace route to dong I almost forgot about

[8rad]

Recieved in Lower Moor - unfortunately I dont think my setup is powerful enough to respond. I did send a message at 1554. Just started today, this and your Vale of Evesham posta have been really insightful. Thanks!

[adingbatponder]

Thanks! My MTe (T-echo) went on the blink at about 16:00. That device has been iffy for a while. Nice of you to post here! Thanks for trying to reply. Nothing received here and no node with short name 8rad had appeared on any of my node lists.

[akirayuki]

Hi, I received your message in Exhall. I did reply. My nodes ares EXH1 and EXH2.

[doubledecks]

Still loud and clear to me in Worcester

[Solarpowercomms]

Hi im worcester node north and worcester node South i also have a tbeam that i take mobile. I can see your nodes

[adingbatponder]

@ akirayuki. Thanks ! I unfortunately see neither your nodes nor your replies…

[adingbatponder]

Thanks. What are the node short names? I seem not to have them in my list…

[Solarpowercomms]

Hi they are wnn_1038 and wns_0820

[adingbatponder]

Thanks! I do not see them unfortunately.

[akirayuki]

@adingbatponder You appear in my list 2 hops away.

[adingbatponder]

Thanks for the info. Probably quite a challenge to reply in view of lie of the land…

[adingbatponder]

7acc still not seen by me… sorry.

[adingbatponder]

nicetraceroute up to Birmingham