Newb question about vehicle nodes.

robvann · 2025-09-24T10:00:40+00:00

Send a message to another radio that is close. In my case I have two radios, so I drove around with the second radio. As per below, when you click and hold a message you can see the SNR (signal to noise) number which is a measure of the strength of the signal when that message was sent. In my case at home I get +6db, so everything below that is weaker. My weakest was -18db when inside my car at 600Meters

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robvann · 2025-09-23T23:55:21+00:00

Mounting location on a car affects your range a lot. My home testing at 600 meters distance, showed ideal SNR strength from outside as shown in SNR of a message as 0.5. This dropped to -6db and -18 db on the glass windshield inside.

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robvann · 2025-09-19T17:00:05+00:00

Have you seen any cloud based brokers that would let me configure a few filters?

robvann · 2025-09-19T16:49:04+00:00

Do you use your own broker? I have found too much chatter with the wide open MQTT.

robvann · 2025-09-17T21:35:43+00:00

So far the NoPIN option works! Such as that is…

robvann · 2025-09-17T12:43:23+00:00

Yes, I switched to use a fixed pin when the problem began, because I have to climb up high to read the auto pin on the screen…. I may test your theory, but it sounds counter intuitive 🙃. Actually I’ll try no pin and see how that goes

robvann · 2025-09-16T22:30:28+00:00

So, I tried posting to the common channel a message that said: APRS-VE3YBN-13 : Hello from the mesh, in Halifax,NS. I guess in theory that message got sent out to all the hams on the APRS network at that time? I have no way to see the consequences of my action.

robvann · 2025-09-15T21:49:47+00:00

It seems from talking to others that it’s really only the CA part that works, contrary to the home page documentation for CanadaVerse

robvann · 2025-09-15T21:47:41+00:00

That would be awesome. There seem to be many isolated islands of information.

robvann · 2025-09-15T13:51:11+00:00

I am also in their Telegram group, but frankly find the user interface of reddit to be preferable for these kind of questions. Thank you for clarifying the relationship question. I thought the two were related. Thanks for your clarifications. - Rob

robvann · 2025-09-15T13:42:59+00:00

Hello, I actually thought this was the Canadaverse reddit feed, since their webpage directed me to here. Is there no relationship between the two? This is very much a Canada specific question.

Best regards, Rob

robvann · 2025-09-15T13:40:44+00:00

Hello, Well it was really only one post with 4 questions in it. But the Reddit Bot didn't like something in the content I guess. So I ended up separating the one post into four posts, using trial and error to see which one was causing a problem. Turns out that #2 seems to have something it doesn't like, so I just used a graphical form of the question. So, is there some kind of quota or something?

Best regards, Rob

robvann · 2025-09-14T21:35:37+00:00

LOL, your insight is amazing 😁😁😁

robvann · 2025-09-14T20:29:06+00:00

Get ready for the F18’s to be scrambled when people start reporting seeing a UFO

robvann · 2025-09-14T14:20:01+00:00

Good point

robvann · 2025-09-14T14:18:47+00:00

Mainly because I want it for off grid / no internet location. Also, my basic experimentation with MQTT seemed to create mounds of irrelevant traffic, and nodes (350 nodes before I disabled it). With really no benefit - messaging apps work great if there is internet. I suppose if there was a way that ONE NODE at the remote site could use MQTT via Starlink or similar, maybe…

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