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G1JOB
Добавлен 2 июн 2021
Ham radio and all things Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Events from my local radio club, The Thurrock Acorns Amateur Radio Club. Currently building a Meshtastic network. We have SOTA events and public shows booked for 2024. Amateur TV videos coming soon.
Contact me by email: station@g1job.co.uk
Contact me by email: station@g1job.co.uk
MESHTASTIC PORTABLE REPEATER BUILD (AUDIO FIXED)
Meshtastic Portable Repeater Build using a Heltec v3 and five 18650 batteries.
Check out my Solar Node build here
ruclips.net/video/Xhud4s9lt5g/видео.html
This is the same as my previous video, just with the audio issues rectified!
Thanks for watching!!
Check out my Solar Node build here
ruclips.net/video/Xhud4s9lt5g/видео.html
This is the same as my previous video, just with the audio issues rectified!
Thanks for watching!!
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MESHTASTIC PORTABLE REPEATER BUILD
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I have re-uploaded the video with better Audio, so if you are having issues, please follow this link! ruclips.net/video/JRatLA3pcTA/видео.html Meshtastic Portable Repeater Build using a Heltec v3 and five 18650 batteries. Check out my Solar Node build here ruclips.net/video/Xhud4s9lt5g/видео.html
TWO MONTH TIMELAPSE CITY OF LONDON!!
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Captured between November 2023 and February 2024 from a building near London Wall, in The City of London. This timelapse was captured at 50 second intervals over a two month period. Timelapse.London
Ascent of Botley Hill and view from the peak
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My walk up Botley Hill from the Farm House in February 2024. Produced for use on Amateur TV.
MESHTASTIC SOLAR NODE PART 2 INSTALLATION
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Part 2 of my Solar Node build for Meshtatsic. Built using a Heltec V3 and 18V solar panel, Havering_South sits on the Havering & Thurrock border to bridge the two boroughs together.
MESHTATSIC SOLAR NODE PART 1 THE BUILD
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Meshtastic Solar Node on the bench built ready for installation. Check out the installation video ruclips.net/video/Xhud4s9lt5g/видео.htmlsi=_-B-oVb4EmHnfHOd You can also see my portable repeater complete build and testing ruclips.net/video/6lYCy3hQO7o/видео.htmlsi=t4mtzgt9hES4pfH4 NEW PROJECTS COMING SOON!
low audio
Yeah… there’s an audio fixed version available. Check the comments 👀
I've become a Meshtastic addict. I've now got like (10) devices. I may need to find a 12-step support group. I've been a licensed ham since 1989 and this is the most interesting thing I've found in a while. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for your comment. I am still here and a new video will be coming soon
Wireless mike?
There an audio fixed updated version of it 💯
Nice build, here are the RAK wisblock solar nodes I've been building, I have 2 done and I'm working on 3 more, hope to have them finished by the end of May. drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w9BZEIAbM7husK4cvl5kW1IITATkQp9s
Hey boss, where is the solar panel. Maybe better join it, when power infrastructure is off. We need alternative. Think about this. In my city we buildings independent Meshtastic system whith solar panel, and battery. 73
What batteries are you using for this?
18650’s
3M double sided tape or chloroprene (yellow shoe glue) will last and work better than super glue. A switch with a round screwed thread would be better than that big clunky 10A automotive switch. Those vandal proof switches are ridiculous overkill, just get a $5 rubber boat console switch if it has to be waterproof. Make sure all your batteries are identical brand, capacity, condition & voltage, because you're not using a load balance charger. A $10 Boya lapel mic and a 10yr old android phone would solve all your audio problems very cheaply ! Is it going to be solar eventually ?
What battery protection module did you use
The Solar Charger I used deals with everything power wise!. The node as now been upgraded again and is running a WisBlcok!
speak up
Thank you for the feedback. It has been addressed. ruclips.net/video/JRatLA3pcTA/видео.htmlsi=ZvI31pY6fpS_fUYF
Dont use flame on heat shrink. A hair dryer works fine
It’s never let me down before. Been doing it for years.
I have everything I need to put up my outside self powered mesh repeater/client to keep in touch with me family and I have a beautiful day out there but of course I am sick this week amd by the time I feel better it will be nasty out. This Murphy guy that made up the law that screws us over when are looking forward to something is pretty mean… just saying
Well done bro'. Thanks
Thank you! Appreciate the feedback! ♥️
Nice one mate
Thank you! Appreciate the feedback!
Please speak up 👂
Good stuff 😊
lovely
I have re-uploaded the video with better audio... I hope! So if you are having issues hearing it, find the new version here! Thanks for watching!! ruclips.net/video/JRatLA3pcTA/видео.html
Ever thought about building more to sell? I’d buy one for my nodes !
I can certainly put a few together and upload them to my website incase people do want them.
@@G1JOBI’ve sent you an email
I’d remove that bit of wire and seal that spare glad differently. Wire could carry water into your box using capillary action between the conductors.
Thank you for the comment. Yeah its only a temporary fix, till a permanent cable goes through there. I just didn't want to risk doing damage to anything inside by drilling at a later date. Just got to work out which direction would best benefit from the yagi and waiting for more Raks to arrive. There will be an update video for this one soon, as I've already upgraded it to a new antenna and a wisblock :)
no sound?
It’s coming across very quiet from the edit. I’m going to reupload very soon! Max out all your Audio settings and you’ll probably hear me in the back of the box 🤣
nice setup, this would be worth re-upload with fixed audio gain, i can barely hear with all available gain to me maxed out.
You will see this happen in the next day or so 😬
Reuploaded! ruclips.net/video/JRatLA3pcTA/видео.html
Cool setup
Thank you! Appreciate the feedback! 💯
Great job 👍
Appreciate the feedback ♥️
Thumbs up, been building few things myself
Can't hear you.
Turn your volume up a bit! I'm new to the editing side. Still getting the hang of it :)
Same here, gave it a go but the various other noises that Windows makes meant I nearly shat myself with the volume on max 😂😂
@@dodgydd apologies! It has been noted and will be better in the next one 💯
Reuploaded! ruclips.net/video/JRatLA3pcTA/видео.html
Please speak up 👀👀
Good option would be to use a RAK board with the nRF52840 chip. A Heltec will run down a 18650 battery in a day where as the RAK can last up to a week with a single battery.
Thank you for your comment. I have recently replaced 2 of my fixed nodes, Including my solar with Raks for that exact reason. I used the Heltec in this as it was kicking around as a spare from when it got pulled out. Got a few more Raks on order to replace this one too 💯
@@G1JOB Where can I get a RAK Board from? I'm also using a Heltec V3 as a repeater but it is not too sensitive
Ive used Pi Pico + waveshare as my repeater nodes they have a very lower draw and about 90ma on TX. Last for days and days!
@@HillTreks direct from their site. Comes in a few weeks but you’ll notice the improvement! Have an update video for my solar node, which I’ve just upgraded to Wisblock. I’m just doing the edit on it, hopefully be uploaded this week 🤞🏼link for the Wisblock below. Make sure you select EU868 on the dropdown. store.rakwireless.com/products/wisblock-meshtastic-starter-kit
@@2e0txe I’ve heard many good things about the Pi Pico. I’ve only used it as a DMR hotspot. Maybe I’ll do an upgrade to a Pico and test it out. Appreciate your comment 💯
Very nice build 😊 subscribed
Thank you for the feedback and sub!
How do you keep lightning from hitting it?
I live in hope that it won’t happen! 🤣 There is only that device, so if it was to happen, the damage would be minimal. There’s a phone mast tower within half a mile and a lot of tall trees that are higher, so I hope the lightning would hit something else before my node. 😅
@@G1JOB ahhh, I see. Have a wonderful day 👌
nice build
Appreciate the feedback 💯
I found that solar power management charging board on amazon, but it appears to use a 14500 battery instead of an 18650 (which is why the plastic battery holder looks smaller than the other three that you added). Do you know of a similar solar board which natively takes an 18650 instead?
They are out there, however I wasn’t able to find any when I was looking for them when I made this one. I ordered 2 of the one featured in my video, so my next one will have the same. I got a pack of 20 18650 battery holders very cheap too. Vape shops are a good place to go to get batteries! Roll in and ask for 10 and you’ll get a deal 💯
Cricklewood Electronics sell a solar panel with attached 18650 holder, as well as some moderate solar panels for low power use.
Hey g1job are you on discord? Wondering if I could pick your brains as have never done anything like this but want to build a solar node
@@kernowgym I am indeed. You can find me at discord.gg/juStNtvX
Nice build. RAK is definitely the way to go with battery and solar nodes. They absolutely sip power.
Funny I’ve just seen this… I’m sitting here flashing the Rak for this node as I type this 🤣
What?? I hardly understand a single word! Ugly audio ...
Thank you for the feedback ♥️
Hey there, new to Meshtastic, curious how you can add a Yagi and Omni to one device. Can you provide some additional information. Thanks in advance.
Thank you for your message. It wouldn’t be the same device. I’d use 2 Heltecs, one for the yagi and one for the omni. But they’d be on the same pole and both rooted into the same box. The extra gland I added is for the additional coax to pass through. I’ve got an upgrade video due this week for this project. New antenna and upgrading it to a Rak Wisblock.
@@G1JOB Thank you so much for the infor, I just wanted to make sure I was not missing something. Great info, loving this project.
Havering South, I am in Havering North (RM3). 73 de Bob, M0BOB.
Great to hear from you Bob! Are you able to see my Havering South node from where you are?
Wait so how did this stuff catch on? I'm only hearing about it now.
There’s been quite a lot of activity on them recently in some areas. We thought we would jump on in our area as there wasn’t much activity. Trying to make it so, that if newbies buy ztheir first device and set it up, there will be nodes around they can connect to and chat with others. Rather than them buying a node, flashing it and then nothing happens with it.
@@G1JOB - I was intrigued by the LoRa technology a couple of years ago and I was pleasantly surprised a few weeks ago to see that the open source community had fully embraced it and Meshtastic was exploding onto the world. My solar panels arrived an hour ago and I'm going to design the custom 3D printed enclosure tonight. My 8.5 dBi antennas are circling Florida due to a UPS foul up but they'll be here in a couple of days. The WisBlocks should be shipping from China tomorrow, after the extended Chinese holiday. I'm making an emergency comms system so my brother, sister and I can text if there is no cell or internet service.
@@Liberty4Ever sounds great! I have my next 2 videos of me upgrading 2 existing nodes to WisBlocks and producing another 2 portable repeaters. Are you also planning on adding your devices to the public primary channel? Or just private only.
@@G1JOB - I'm making a private encrypted comms system so there is no public access and it'll be configured not to forward Meshtastic public transmissions, but I feel guilty about not giving back to the community that made this awesomeness happen, so I may configure my station (but not my brother's or sister's) to serve as a public mesh node as well, or I may put up a solar powered public node somewhere else as a ham radio thing, maybe at the local radio club's ham shack. I live in a town of 350,000 people and the self reported Meshtastic node map I saw had only one node. Hopefully there are more than that. There is apparently pretty good Helium network coverage around here. I'll play around with LongFast when I'm developing my node before deploying the other two nodes and hopefully see how much Meshtastic activity there is around here. I'm currently designing the solar powered Meshtastic FamilyNet enclosure in CAD. 🙂
Nice construction. Post more videos to show us how it develops.
Nice one, keep them nodes coming
New video on my channel, showing a new portable repeater I built recently. Similar design to this one. ruclips.net/video/6lYCy3hQO7o/видео.htmlsi=ukFSdWVGi-j21xk4