ShawnT 🐀<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sidereal</span></a></span> I've yet to have a full convo over city-wide <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/Meshtastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meshtastic</span></a>. I imagine it's like fishing, where you need the right conditions and timing to make a contact (kinda like Amateur Radio that way). Antenna elevation is critical here. But it's built on LoRa, which is optimized for IoT in a star pattern; Meshtastic is shoehorned into that. I've heard of the <a href="https://mastodon.coffee/tags/ATAK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ATAK</span></a> plugin that allows MT devices to be used for events and close-range comms, but I need more friends to try it out.</p>