Tag: Meshtastic

This post draws heavily from a presentation Chris N9CVR gave at a Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club meeting in summer of 2025. What is Meshtastic? In order to answer this, we need to back up a bit… The ISM bands ISM stands for Instrument, Scientific, Medical. The ISM bands are 6.78, 13.56, 27.12, 40.68, 433.92…

Those who have seen my video about my weather station will know I’ve been looking for at least some ability to see the current WX conditions/ I’ve also been messing with LoRa (specifically Meshtastic) a lot, so I figured I’d combine the two into one fun project! While we’re at it, I figured, let’s make…

I started my foray into the world of LoRa with a Heltec device in 2024. Very soon after, a friend gave me a commercial 900MHz antenna, so I started looking for an excuse to build another one. This generated a solar weather-indicating node which acts as a repeater, based on the RAK19007. It turns out…