I just bought a few devices and I think I have the software working correctly on a couple of them, but there’s no one around me here in the North Central Pennsylvania, United States. That’s one thing about having a big country and a lot of rural area, you may not find anyone around you doing the same thing.
thank you for your comment, when myself and another radio ham friend started in our area, there were just the two of us, tonight the node count is 155, its been up to 175 before now.
@@RADIO_DAZE I just dropped my license after having it for 30 years KC5ENC. The FCC wasn’t taking care of my records, correctly, so when I tried to re-file the number associated with the license was deleted and instead of arguing I just let it go. I’ve also filed complaints with them about Starlink, that they never answered, so it’s not really unexpected. This will be a good alternative.
It is indeed Worksop radio club. Big into radio as you know Graham, also trying to get people interested in the hobby. Got to give G3RCW a plug, hopefully gain a few visitors and possibly members. All helps to keep the club alive👍
Guessing you put this up vertically? Have you tried horizontal to see what effect it has? Would have been good to see your final set up. Thanks for the vid
i used the antenna for over a week in vertical plane, i also loaned one out that got some considerable use and distance. i will put the antenna up in a horizontal plane at some point shortly and soo a short video of the results, thanks for watching and for the comment.👍
Thanks for this upload. Good info, well presented. Subscribed. Just one question: how long will a new, fully charged, 18650 battery last in a waterproofed box, outside in the cold?
the honest answer is i do not know my friend, i have had two days active use on one battery at one point but this was in the house working through another node in the loft.
Those take out units simply scream for a solar panel. There's an electronics shop in Cricklewood that sells a solar panel with built in Li-ion charger board.
My node is not on the list (ENOT), as there is a big hill in the way down here in the east/middle of Nottingham. Might have a go at making my own antenna. Never made one at all. Would having multiple up-pointing elements and multiple ground-pointing elements make it a 'better' antenna, so sort of multiple di-poles wired to the same bit of coax?
the antenna is a dipole the measurments are in the video on the beginning and again near the end. good luck, enjoy making your first home brew antenna!
@@RADIO_DAZE a dipole antenna has a gain of 2.15 dBi. Since this is a mesh protocol, all you need are nodes along the path. Even with the cheap $1 antenna I see 50+ nodes in a 30 mile radius. I’m using heltec v3 nodes.
@@kurtdobson the current node count here is 187 nodes, are you picking up via RF or via MQTT? we have about 8 nodes in the village but we are comunicating much further than the village with home brewed antennaas and also with purchased equipment. 👍
the plastic sheathing should not cause a problem, many antennas, including some shop bought ones have a coating on them, this build was a test build and it worked very well picking up over 175 nodes.
It’s fine but if you use solid mains copper cable with the insulation took off and tune it then slide the pvc back over the wires the resonant frequency drops and you need to retune however the match seemed better with the pvc on so it stays on in future 👍🏻
Isn't it the case, that because this is fed with coaxial cable which terminates at the radio end with a grounded shield, that this isn't really a dipole? This is a monopole in the vacinity of a grounded wire. The grounded wire is stuck at 0V because, well, it's grounded. This means that the grounded wire can't radiate as there is no change in voltage. To make this a dipole, with two radiating elements, a balun is needed. No?
nice to catch up with you again, hope you are well and doing ok in life. not 100% sure to be honest, I'm just experimenting, from range tests and two way messaging the results are good, if you have the time and the kit (i'm sure you do) maybe we could get together and do some proper testing? I would be happy to know more and understand more. you are the profesional renagade😉I am still an amateur, just trying to learn more and understand it. please get back in touch
@@RADIO_DAZE Without giving too much away, where abouts are you based? I am often driving around from one client site to another, so I could even drop by on my home if I'm passing by.
me and this old desk have worked together for over 16 years in the same location, i eventualy plan to renovate the desk and put a glass surface on the top, it should survive many more projects and antenna building sessions for years to come.
