I'm wanting to use Lunacore it's a firmware that supports Meshtastic, MeshCore, and RNode/KISS (Reticulum) on a Heltec v3.

Hey, thanks for the info, just getting into mesh technology, but got almost a decade in the fpv drone hobby, and we've been using LoRa 4-5yrs now for our radio to drone link and I got a couple questions. Only thing available to us when it first hit the drone hobby was LoRa 2.4ghz, probably due to antenna size and better penetration, but now we have 900mhz models, and even dual band modules that do both. So my first question is, I've seen a couple videos with a few Mestastic boards that now are dual band, is there very many nodes out there using 2.4ghz for Meshtastic or is it more like future proofing the board? Second question, what's pretty standard for our radio control and the receiver on the drone is a T-style omnidirectional antenna, but I notice most of the mesh devices just use the regular whip, or dipole type antenna. Is there an advantage to that, or maybe its just as simple as the omnidirectional antenna is more critical to a drone since it's not a static location? Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer, just subbed too!

Hi mate, I appreciatie your videos. I got a couple of T114 V2' in one of them green see through cases. I use a 1000mah lipo in them, and a little stubby antenna in one of them, and a little helical antenna inside the other one. Battery life is 2-3 days, but I turn my radio's off at night, as well as my WiFi (helps me sleep better). Range is about 2-3km (1-2miles), on both of them, in an urban/city environment. I think it's because the stubby is tuned to 915, whereas in the EU we use 868. Furthermore, max power allowed is 20dBm, I'm sure a little whip antenna, and power set to max 27dBm, would about double my range. I also own 2 Seeed studio WIO L1 Pro trackers you mentioned. The make use of the same chipset, but use a 2000mah lipo, giving about 5 days battery life (in my case 10, as I mentioned (I turn them off at night). I really like them, as they have a joystick button, making it supereasy to navigate through the menus and get to canned messages, as well as make use of an internal keyboard (similar like you can use a remotecontrol to write on your tv screen). This way my kids use them going to school, they message me when they arrive, it's fun for them. Range is about double as well 2-3 miles (4-5km), in an urban environment; probably due to a much better antenna, which you can tilt 90 degrees. Btw, both of them, the t114, and the WIO L1 Board, have a solar Port, and solar battery management on the board, so you could use them as a solar node or solar repeater in meshcore. I might DIY a solar node out of the packaging of the t114 actually, should be a fun project.

hi im thinking about getting into Mesh but want to know if i need a smart phone or can i use a laptop or computer or notebook etc. thanks

If i get myself and my family mesh devices, and we live on different sides of FW, can we communicate? Is there good coverage in this area?

Thanks Jason!

Please stop promoting Spec5. They openly steal free designs that are specifically for non-commercial use.

My current carry is Spec5 Ranger (Lilygo T-Deck) I bought at Hamcation two years ago. I see Rokland is coming to thisnyears Hamcation, as well as Spec5,

The Wio Tracker L1 Pro is a fantastic node. It's biggest weak spot is probably the fact that it is not weather resistant (or proof). The joystick works really well, even to hunt and select letters to compose messages. The battery life is great too. BTW... The Helltec V4 is the latest board, not the V3 but I might guess the V3 is still more popular; maybe. The V4 runs great but it is an absolute power hog.

Have you heard about the delta plus NPH1 !?!?

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Muzi works has the most exciting nodes for 2026.

You should do a video on Meshcore. Its much better than Meshtastic.

I have a Spec5 Ranger and a seeed studio t1000-e tracker. Will bring one or the other to Hamcation

Meshnology N39 using Heltec V4 is the new one.

If you already did a video on this I'm sorry, if so please point me to it. I need to understand this first from the 30000 foot level. Then I'll have something to overlay when you talk about nodes and versions. I'd like to hear you talk about Mesh (I'll leave generic for now; either meshtastic or meshcore), its viability, use cases, and whether you see a role for it in ARES use going forward (and, of course, what that role would be).

Hey jason i am looking to get a mashtastic device and was wondering if you could look at it and tell me what you think it is the Atlavox M1 device made by Atlavox thanks and 73. god bless.

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