Has anyone installed in their car?

Did a new testdrive today. Put a proper antenna(800-900Mhz external gsm with magnet foot) on the car, and a similar on the stationary node. The stationary node is at 0Km in the topological map at first floor inside a building, with the antenna in an south facing window., and each point is a place I stopped and successfully texted to the stationary node.

Distance mesurements are cumulative, sorry, I wanted a star map, but couldn’t get google maps to cooperate.

There is of course a lot of dropouts in between, and I can say without a doubt that in urban environment ground to ground range is limited to a few hundred meters, however there does not take much in height difference to improve range significantly. If you have just 1 node up high it will vastly improve coverage. Even if two nodes are closer together, the signal between them may be too weak, but the common weak node far away will bridge the gap ( I :heart: mesh)

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