Did you upload yet? If so can you send the link?

@@fierceseaman - No upload to Printables and Thingiverse yet. It's RAK's fault. 😛 I ordered my WisBlocks on 13FEB24 and it's nine days later and they haven't shipped yet. The first few days were the extended New Year celebration in China but I was expecting my order to ship on the 18th or 19th. I sent them an email asking when my order would ship but they haven't responded in two days. I check the order status online and it's still "Thank you for paying us, we'll email when your order ships, and please earn a bonus by telling everyone to buy from us". I have all of the other parts, including the PVC pipe for the masts. I'm guessing it'll be a couple of weeks for the RAK order to arrive. The CAD is mostly finished but I want to test the enclosures as fully assembled and working nodes to avoid uploading vaporware. Rokland shipped the antennas the next day, the quality looks great and the prices were reasonable. Unfortunately, they were back ordered on the WisBlocks. I revised the design from my earlier post. I'm using an 8.5 dBi antenna with an N connector but the 5 dBi antenna would work, or a smaller antenna with a base flage that mounts an SMA connector in an N sized panel hole. I'm using four 18650 batteries but any number up to four will work. I'm using a fairly large 6 watt solar panel. I think it's going to be very nice. The enclosure should print on any printer with a standard 200x200 mm bed or larger.

@@fierceseamanfollowing

Sounds great. Looking forward to it.

“Buy” the stl?? Hell no

Why not​@@plumbdaddy3

Nice? They ought to be free. Once upon a time, people did not only create things for profit, but because they wanted to contribute to society and do good in the world. How far people have fallen that we praise someone for putting a price on something so simple...

​@BearDemocracy did you ever stop to consider how expensive a decent printer costs? Not only that but also the supplies and hours it takes to design and test before being happy with your design... so much invested into it! If a person has the money, why not help a person out a little so that they can continue coming up with good designs? I totally understand what you're saying about sharing without charge just to help the overall project, but don't take advantage of someone and go all entitled about it. Do your part to support the project and help those who are putting their own money into it. This enables faster growth of any project.

@@MicahFunk That should be donation-based. I would be far more likely to support a creator after I have actually been able to try out the creation - otherwise, I'm handing someone money for virtual files that may or may not work as intended or shown. If we stop demanding money for everything, people won't have to beg for it just to survive.

What's the other one?

@@Desmaad Andy Kirby, but away from mesh you also have Fred in the shed 👍

whos the other one?

ditto- too bad many are sold-out

it needs to, we are heading into uncertain times and i think folks are prepping for comms blackouts

So much so that the shelves are bare. Everything is on back order.

Waiting for mine to arrive. Pinted a case already :-)

indeed, thankfully I started my journey (read: obsession) a few months ago and already have 10 nodes of various size and functionality built :D

@@idonotcomplyrevolutionyeah, I don't think that many people are getting this stuff for "paragliding" like on the Rokland site suggestions

I have Ultra Fire batteries. They are pretty good, despite their name! No Fires .... yet? 😅

UltraFire has a reputation for disassembling recycled (bad) laptop batteries, cutting them apart, testing the cells, and selling the ones that haven't quite failed yet. Spend 30% more and buy a new battery from a reputable manufacturer.

​@@chrissewell1608 nonono ultra fire are scary, quite literally a fire risk

I think they're owned by Ladbrokes, the bookie in the UK.

I would stay away from these or actually from all the batteries that display a fake capacity

Got a link ?

Cheers Paul!

I live in the West Ga. Area, and was wondering how well these would work for our club members to create a net work. I am interested to see how it goes!

Just recieved today - i will keep you posted

​@@BracaPhoto Well?

That already exists, look at the Lilygo T-Echo

​@@cool110is it meshtastic compatible?

@@dfgdfg_ Yes, I'm using one as my main portable client

Thanks n

same here- i trying to figure out what i need.. some say get it off amazon, other say aliexpress- dont matter- i feel ali be cheaper but take longer- i just want everything- dont want to order twice and miss out..

Wher are you

@@RingwayManchester North Cornwall buddy

868mhz for sure

Do you have a link to the connector you used? They come in different spacing for board clearances.

@@WhenIWasAKitten It was an aliexpress thing. Board is 1.6mm thickness, so when I saw a listing for a 1.7mm spacing one, I decided it was close enough and got one for 30 Cents. (I tried posting the link, even without the aliexpress.... first, but YT refuses me to post anything that looks like a link) It fits snugly, also when the solder mask on the backside is removed. The center pin simply rests on top of the 0 Ohm resistor so easy to solder the center pin. The item listing title is "RP-SMA-KE SMA Female PCB Solder Edge Vertical Mount RF Coaxial Connector 180 Degree Antenna Socket Thru Hole Plug Socket" The listing had more versions to choose from, I chose no.4, the one specifying 1.7mm.

Awesome, thank you! @@Tore_Lund

Drop me an email re Kelsall :)

Do these boards have charging circuits built in then ?

@@MONTY-YTNOM the one my buddy provided did.

Hey what do you mean by "tab" based battery holder?

@@Mavi222 look at the ones 18650ed sells. Beefy tabs not springs

Thats cool, Im struggling to find one now they are all over UKposts :) @@NamesGolden

Carl? Is that you?

@@RingwayManchester not Carl… Ste based in north wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Did you message ?

@@RingwayManchester I tried, I first sent “test” followed by “on halkyn mountain”, “on halkyn mountain” - it was cold up there so we didn’t hang about long. I’ve just put a video up now, when we got back to the car, I tried again as it was showing 50% signal strength! Mrs wanted to go home though, so headed back.

Oh right! Someone else was up Pentre Halkyn

Yagis are bullshit. They've never worked (been testing wifi/cell stuff for years). Parabolic is where it's at. Pretty cheap and 20-30 actual dbi gain.

That's not really a fair comparison, though. I've been active in both the Helium and Meshtastic communities and there are ways to do Helium mapping that just aren't being done in the Meshtastic world right now (I have a device for doing Helium mapping and have done quite a bit of it myself). Also, every Helium node asserts its location and that's all public info whereas Meshtastic nodes don't have any sort of central database and don't have to report anything they don't want to. And Helium is dying and nodes are dropping off the network constantly (I took down my node months ago since I couldn't reach any other nodes and the cryptocurrency side of things got too complicated and all the apps are hopelessly broken).

It’s an sma female I think, I always get mixed up . Has the hole in

@@RingwayManchester Cheers Lewis. Looking at the video it looks female SMA like you say. The male SMA has the threaded collar on it and the pin. Conversely, RP-SMA swaps the pins so the pin is on the female and the male (with the threaded collar) has the hole.

Our government if so preoccupied with figuring what a woman is and how not to get lynched by the mob outside, that at least they are not paying attention to what happens in some areas. There's zero resource committed now to bandwidth monitoring and security, unless you'll overtake the frequency, they don't even care. DIY bits like this go through customs with ease as well.

“Power circuit safety?” 😂 it’s milliamperes there Nancy…

You can configure a fixed GPS location, use live GPS data from an attached GPS if your device has one (like the Lilygo T-BEAM), or it can get the device location from your phone (if you're using a phone with that node). If you don't want to reveal your location your best bet is to turn off phone location sharing in the app and put in a fake location in the fixed-location configuration option. There doesn't seem to be a way to completely turn off location sharing, at least not yet.

Yes we get the picture

Thanks Chris!!! :) Everyone show him some love an order one! Even if you don't have a device. Then order a device. :) ha ha ha

Please don't, my phone is melting 🤣 @@C_David_Clark

Received 5/9, do you need assistance kkkk

@@Woffy. My Dad has been practicing his soldering skills but thanks!