Pete, Any thing specific that needs to be done with configuration re repeater vs a companion node? I think I'm going to do the same - deploy a repeater and see how things go. According to the map I have other repeaters closer to me than you do. Some careful branch selection may allow me to put the trunk shadow Mike mentions in an optimal position.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 9:55 AM Pete Soper via TriEmbed < [email protected]> wrote: > I put a Heltec 32 V4 configured as a repeater near the top of a tree > roughly 60-70ft above ground yesterday and initially the results were > very discouraging: I could no longer hit the Carolina Backhaul in Chapel > Hill I'd been clinging to earlier; by setting coding rate to 8 aka "max > error correction bits" I could ping it and get an ack one time out of > three. But I left everything running over night and this morning the > contacts in the companion driven node connected to my repeater had maxed > out. One of them jumped right off the screen of my phone: DH Hill > library at NC State 14 miles away. I tried pinging it and had immediate > and repeatable success! So I have at least one reliable path out of my > "tree farm near Apex" with this setup and hopefully there will be others > in the companion node's contact list and data structures inside the > repeater. I'm fully expecting this link to break down on rainy days > until I can get a node above most of my trees. Still, this success will > keep me going. And this setup is a hack, running with a 10AH battery. > I'll keep it up as much as I can after protecting the guts from rain and > as time allows swap in solar power and hopefully get it near the top of > a very tall Tulip Poplar here. The immediate priorities are to turn > attention back to gathering info and publishing it on the TriEmbed web > site and proposing some fun-oriented tutorial meetings. > > Pete > > > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > Searchable email archive available at > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >
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