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Traveling out soon and bringing Meshtastic.? Wondered if anyone had a Mesh Map of the area they could throw in here just to see what coverage is looking like?

The meshmap.net shows a couple out in Rowlett that are sending status to MQTT. Not sure of any others... we're just getting started.

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Rich N5CSU

I just came up last night with Mesh 0168 in Plano.

Michael

Been here a week.? Things are kinda sparse.
For starters my location is sub par.? Ground floor condo at the base of a steep hill leading down to Lake Ray Hubbard just south of 66.? I do have a lake view towards Rockwall straight down 66 but the other condos wrap out an cut me off from the south east.? Limited window and I get nothing on it here at home base.

Here is about what I can "see" with my antenna.? I'm the dot in the middle with the triangle to the right of my position as my coverage.


There's a tall church across the lake that would make a great location.? I think it's First Baptist?? Maybe?

However, when I walk down to the waters edge I get YD01-YD Personal He's User ID: !8b909b5b right at 2.5 miles away and that link lets me see a few others.? Then driving around I pick up a few near Sachse.
Coming from Phoenix AZ we have much greater LoRa saturation.? There are some areas with no coverage at all but the high mountains give great coverage.? And those are accessible by trails that we are encouraged to hike and enjoy.? Out here I think your only real altitude for long range Mesh is Water Towers and Cell Towers, maybe a few high buildings but all three are hard to convince to let some stranger put a solar-node on.

Duh - Don't know why I didn't make a propagation map.
I don't think my pattern is this good though.? It doesn't appear to take into consideration obstructions by structures that play a limiting role.

Here's what it could look like from that church.
For the record I assumed the node on the church had a 5db antenna at the height of the top of the church and I assumed the receiving nodes are a 2db antenna at chest height.? Better antennas on home roof would get a better receiving propagation.? Trying to keep this to worst case for the end user.

An interesting thing happened this morning...
In a short 15 minute window between 4:53 AM and 5:12 AM this morning I had four cars pass over the 66 bridge.

1. Meshtastic 85Fc - !DA5685FC
2. Meshtastic 3764 - !A78A3764
3. Meshtastic? 2F78 - !F7027F78
4. Meshtastic? 37BC - !A78A37BC

My node could see these cars nodes from the night stand on the bridge and because they were going over the lake with a more clear and distant horizon, I got to see other nodes in the area.? Was kinda cool and illustrated how mobile nodes help out.

Later in the day I went down to the waters edge and tried to see if I could get any nodes, but no.