I had been thinking about doing that as I was tracking the Melbourne discussion but I thought it would be hard to get going in a small town - however I thought the experiment of a distance attempt from the second-highest mountain in the country sounded like a great idea! - and fun!
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Ohh you’re quite close to me =) … Northbridge reporting in =). Heltec V3 (but it’s pointed out the back of the place looking direction Cammeray).
“not-a-david” =).
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good to know another local is onboard… the topography here isn’t the best, unless you happen to live on the ridges
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Well I was looking into the world record again and its been beat again from the first one.
331Km now, so I may have to rethink my plan for breaking that, not that I have the time or the team to do that, but its fun to work out. I think its very doable myself from Mt Kaputar in western NSW.
I noticed they used what looks like a 5.5db gain vertical antenna. I think with Yagis you could easily smash this record. They also played with the bandwidth, spread factor and used Very Long Slow instead of Long Fast. Sneaky but this would all help get the signal through. They used RAKs as well. which I’m finding are the better of the Mesh boards ( when they work ).
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HI Phillip.
Just having a look at that Bellevue Hill Reserve Lookout, and that would be an awesome place to stick a node. Even if its just your home node and a node there. Its a start. You really should do that. I know there is a guy in Bathurst who has a node set up. If everyone got around to sticking a node up on the highest hill near them ( if theres not one there already ) then the mesh would spread far and wide. Out west NSW it would be good as its pretty flat out that way mostly.
Maybe you could build somethign like this and hide it up there somewhere.
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@Soupbones - I punched the location info (or as best I could estimate) into HeyWhatsThat ( Mt Kaputar to Nyngan - http://www.heywhatsthat.com/?view=MHTRLWGJ ) and I don’t think we’d make this link due to curvature of the earth.
Shorter range options (156km) looks doable to Bullaway Mountain.
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OK so my RPi4 and LoRa HAT setup is running, I can see it transmitting on 919.9MHz with my “RF Explorer”, its not seeing any nodes though.
I’m just using the crappy antenna that came with the HAT. I have had the setup running for 6 hours in my loft with the antenna sitting on my roof.
Me thinks its time to take this up a notch.
Is the best approach to work out who has a nearby system as near to LOS as possible running 24/7 and design a directional setup to reach them or just get a decent omni on the roof?
I’m in Lane Cove North at 82m.
Do we actually have a somewhat permanent mesh going in Sydney metro?