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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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[–] Elleo@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 days ago

The antenna that comes with the heltec v3 isn't very good, you can get much better range even with a cheap antenna. I got an ilabs one for £5 and can reach nodes a about 5km away (I am part way up a hill though)