Yeah, it's definitely best used in places like the US where even if you lose all internet and cellphone signal (tornado or something?) you can still message as long as you're within range of another unit. As it's using radio not WiFi/cell towers.
The unit I have on my roof is marked as a router/client so it will pass messages through to others making me the middle man. Which is fine by me. Costs nothing to do it.
I don't have many nodes near me, but I know some people are setting up self sufficient nodes (units with solar charged batteries and the like) in certain areas. The higher the better.
I'm just messing about with it, as we don't have tornados out earthquakes here in the UK.
Even with tiny antennas and low antennas I was getting distances of about 1km.
Definitely a good thing to have it things go down. Literally!
ronnietucker / Ronnie
npub1el…g8ssq
2024-04-11 13:29:57
in reply to nevent1q…r4nc
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