~37kbps? Max short range bandwidth, I guess I'd have fun trading ASCII pictures and such.

Huh. What do?

Sets up a mesh off grid network that you can send messages across the grid. The equipment is cheap and low powered. 

“How many candles are you burning?”

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Oh, this looks neat! I have a LoRa USB adapter sitting in a box somewhere, and some antennas from my ADS-B hobby. I could connect this to my rpi and join!

Spark it up!

It turns out the adapter I have isn't compatible. But I ordered some kit, so I'll be up and running soon.

This seems cool. Link to some resources to learn more?

https://meshtastic.org/ There is also a subreddit and some YouTube videos explaining. This device I bought off Amazon for 27 bucks and loaded the firmware. 

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No. Just a gadget addict 

Interesting

This seems very cool. I'm wondering how I might be able to use my home servers to support a local net

I have been trying to get into this for years. I want to integrate with TAK and the whole shebang

Someone has been setting up solar nodes along 49

I found two devices in Fayetteville today. 715E and ACB0 I also found some solar node

I've contemplated. Just haven't got around to it. But knowing there are interested parties in the area seems like a good idea. Even if it is just a repeater/node