With mesh we need to be good stewards of the network. It is likely in the next 6 months the repeater owners will have to implement region scoping. This will stop all traffic that you guys send that is not earmarked for a specific region.

Consider that the red circle is South Carolina and outside is USA. Green area is Columbia region and red is Florence region. A,Band C repeaters will want to scope "us" "us-sc" and "cae". G H and I will want to scope "us" "us-sc" and "flo". D will only want "us" "us-sc" and E and F will want "us" "us-sc" "cae" and "flo".

Repeaters setup like this will not relay traffic for areas they don't support. So while packets from "flo" may reach the "cae" area, repeaters in the cae area will not relay them.

Packets earmarked for "us" will go everywhere. try not to use this day to day.

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For the users, you can specify a region for each individual chat. Any messages sent to this chat group will be earmarked as "flo" and only routed by repeaters that are programmed to relay flo area packets. In the example shown here, take note of the region:flo in the title bar.

You could have a chat that was for florence area, and other chat for the whole state. or the whole country.

The idea here is that these chats are encrypted and since non-users can't read them anywya, why allow them to escape our area? this will reduce network utilization going forward.

It is probably best to do this now and then when the repeater owners make the switch you'll be ahead of the game.

In case any of you want to know what a pitless adapter is... it connects your water line to your well pump under ground below the frost line. No more 100w light bulbs in the pump house. Just bury the coupler under ground.

Ran across this 3d printed house. Do they even realize how many nooks and crannies dust will get in? ugggghhhh..... algae growing in the grooves outside and dust collecting inside.

I thought this was going to be a "girl power" "show my ass off in yoga pants" video. It's actually quite good. She built this house with some help. She put in the hours. Awesome! https://youtu.be/0ZexW3dfEm8

https://youtu.be/KQMyoZ3Vd6Y

South Africa - the truth. My fenceline has been breached 25 times in 30 months....