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How is that even fucking possible? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz
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Last night, my node showed that it received information from a node 100 miles away, and I dismissed it as just a weird artifact. But tonight, my node is showing that there are three nodes that are around 220 miles away. I do not have MQTT enabled on downlink so they are definitely over RF. But how is that even fucking possible? I live in an area where the mesh is not super well built up and there are only a few people locally that have nodes and I would expect to get nodes from a lot closer than 200 miles away or even 100 miles away considering there are two decently large cities only 70 miles away. Also, so far I have only gotten these messages at night.

Edit: Correction, they are between 270 and 320 miles away.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I dismissed it last night as an artifact because it was only one single node. But tonight I can't dismiss it because it's three of them. And they all show as either two or three hops away.

Edit: I stand corrected. They are between 270 and 320 miles away. And I thought it might have something to do with a heat inversion, but it's the middle of January. I wouldn't think that would be the cause.