My Meshtastic Story
I discovered Meshtastic while reading a random tech blog. It was the perfect solution to fulfill my childhood radio amateur dreams: no extensive electronics knowledge required, and the hardware was affordable.
I must say I got the same great feeling when I received my first random node signal from the air.
From that moment, I was hooked. I kept my node in my bag for every hike and every trip.
Recently, I tried the so-called "tree node" setup, where you hang the node at the top of a tree using a thrown-over wire for easy deployment.
Since we live on super flat land, I got a few connections right away.
However, the strange thing was that I was getting far fewer connections than I used to. The maximum used to be around 80 nodes, and now it was only 30.
A huge change had happened. Somehow, the whole country had started migrating to MeshCore. The only active users I was picking up were across the border.
Not wanting to remain the only node on the edge of the network, I decided to convert my setup to #MeshCore.
Thanks for the good times, #Meshtastic.