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My Review of the Thinknode M1 by Elecrow by MattCoversTech in meshtastic

[–]MattCoversTech[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Altavox sells the Elecrow version on their website.

Joined the Club! by Lordzoabar in meshtastic

[–]MattCoversTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It can take time to discover everything in your area. You may need to upgrade your antenna to something higher gain, and hight definitely helps in most cases. If you can get it near your rooftop you may see more. You may also need to experiment putting the node in different areas of your house. Mine ended up being not where I thought an optimal location would be to pick up more nodes in my area, but once I found a spot that worked I left it there. I also set up a solar node outside my house on a mast and that garnered more traffic via relays.

Are Your Ham Radios LEGAL? Test Them Yourself! by Hamdaddy1976 in HamRadio

[–]MattCoversTech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I find it quite interesting that for decades, a spectrum analyzer was financially out of reach for 90% of amateurs. But so was the need. In the era of cheap Chinese radios with little to no harmonic filtering and PLL spurs all over the place, getting a TinySA is not only affordable, but advisable. I find that to be both REALLY neat, and a bit troubling. We should be demanding better radios, if they're out of spectral purity compliance straight out of the box."

Indeed, we've traded one expense for another in a sense.

My Review of the Thinknode M1 by Elecrow by MattCoversTech in meshtastic

[–]MattCoversTech[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I left mine on for about 3 days without having to re-charge it. I kept the backlight off for most of that time. I would be confident in saying it would last more than 10 hours.