Meshtastic off-grid radio: Fantastic? Waste of Plastic? Or...

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A few months later, is Meshtastic all it's hyped up to be? We test range, radios, antennas, communications, and tell you all that we've learned. Here's my video on the T-Deck: https://youtu.be/2Ry-ck0fhfw Some of the resources mentioned in this video: - Meshtastic: https://meshtastic.org - Muzi works H1 / R1: https://muzi.works/collections/all - Lilygo T-Deck: https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-deck - Heltec V3: https://heltec.org/project/wifi-lora-32-v3/ - Augustana College students build Meshtastic nodes: https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/meshtastic-devices-text-without-internet-cell-service-satellite/526-80a1a95a-4734-4ba9-8e2d-4b13561fef10 - Asheville residents talk Meshtastic after Helene: https://www.reddit.com/r/asheville/comments/1fw5022/is_anyone_considering_meshtastic_as_a_starlink/ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/geerlingguy Sponsor me on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/geerlingguy Merch: https://www.redshirtjeff.com 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GeerlingEngineering 3rd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Level2Jeff Contents: 00:00 - We have some opinions on Meshtastic 00:49 - Jeff's radios 01:37 - Dad's radios - and a spicy pillow! 02:15 - Drones and Line-of-Sight 05:13 - Truly-off-grid T-Deck 07:05 - BETA 08:31 - Privacy and self-doxing 09:34 - "Long" Range and overloading the mesh 10:22 - Good radio, bad radio 12:11 - Antennas and 915 MHz 13:18 - Physics is physics 15:21 - No license required 16:42 - Emergency use