How to setup region scoping in meshcore. Repeater owners will soon be limiting packets that are not “region scoped” to only a few hops to control network congestion. This is not enabled yet but now is a great time to become familiar with how region scoping works.

Region scoping will define a geographic area for your packets to circulate. You can set a different scope for each chat group you are in.

Lowes solar light repeater

Here's a timeline of the growth of the Florence and Sumter areas in the past 10 months.

Deal on a battery too good to be true? Look more closely and you'll find that chinese manufacturers are combining 16 sets of THREE 314ah LFP cells in parallel without fuses. What happens when three cells are in parallel and one fails? Depending on the failure mode, the other two cells can dump their power into the defective one making a lot of heat.

Here's a screen shot from a Docan YP-900 46kwh battery. Notice the buss bars connecting 6 cells? Don't do this please. Get a battery that has MB56 cells if you need a battery larger than 16kwh.

■■□□□ Texting via available software over radio 📻

Want to send pictures over your Baofeng walkie talkie?

IOS SimpleSSTV

Android DroidSstv.

Scottie 4 (36second) is what we used to use to exchange pictures with Mir space station in the late 90’s.

This looks interesting. SD card to store maps (open street map). No phone needed for an interface, no sim card needed. This unit does have a stubby internal antenna so you might want a repeater on your house to get you over the hump into the network.