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
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 :)
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. 😅
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.
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 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
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 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!
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 :)
What batteries are you using for this?
18650’s
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 👌
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
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.
What?? I hardly understand a single word! Ugly audio ...
Thank you for the feedback ♥️