Is 1km the usual range for 2 nodes? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Cattail@lemmy.world to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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So I bought some heltec V3 to get into meshtastic and I did a range test on the beach and in my neighborhood. I get 1 Km ai can't get confirmation that the message was received on the meshtastic app

Context is I'm in 915 Mhz ism band. Neighborhood died have the forest and the beach was windy so lots of water particles in the air. And ill say I used the stock attennas. And I'm in standard long fast encoding

Is this typically performance

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[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Heads up, the antennas that often come with the heltec v3 are usually not only not good, but are actually tuned for 868mhz rather than 915mhz. That being said, I get 4-5km though some forest with appropriate antennas.

[-] Cattail@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah I bought adapters and put a WiFi antenna on and only got a little bit more range, maybe I need the proper antenna

[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

https://meshtastic.org/docs/hardware/antennas/

I've put the gizont antennas on my stuff and I've been happy with them. I've been thinking about upgrading my stationary nodes with something nicer though. More height whenever possible will always be the best way to get more range though.

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