benbrown on Nostr: I went to the AustinMesh.org meetup this past week and met a bunch of nice folks who ...
I went to the AustinMesh.org meetup this past week and met a bunch of nice folks who share my very geeky interest in these tiny LoRa radios and what they can do. It inspired me to do something I've been pondering for a while... I put a mesh radio on MY DRONE and sent it up into the sky above my house!
Normally, my mesh radios cannot see any other nearby radios from the house, alas. However, at >= 50M up, I was able to send and receive messages with people who were ~5 miles away, on the other side of downtown. Whoa!
Imagine if there were a few radios up at that height. We could relay messages for the whole city!!
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