Hello again, so far my mesh has been great as a neighborhood range gimmic (no harm, just bummed there aren’t more adopters locally), but I’m hoping to go further. Turns out a neighboring town has a more extensive mesh than my own. Aside from convincing a bunch of people in between to set up meshtastic, could I go and set up a yagi and point it towards a known node for example? I am atop a hill and likey have LOS, but even if I get a signal, how should this be repeated if not by another node close to the yagi? Or rethink this entirely? Thank you all in advance
If you are OK with connecting them via the internet then consider an MQTT backhaul: https://meshtastic.org/docs/software/integrations/mqtt/
Please let me know if you want a dead-simple “How do I connect two towns via the internet?” There are obviously traffic implications, so please coordinate with Town 2.
If you are looking for non-internet options then it sounds like you are already on track. High up, line-of-sight, and a directional antenna are a good start.
Next time I’m down there I’ll certainly ring their longfast some more, seems like at least one of the nodes I picked up on was a solar powered RAK, and was picking them up from an unideal spot from over a mile away. I’d certainly imagine they’d want to expand.
I’m a little apprehensive of being on a map, I know that there’s programed deviation and you can opt out. I am looking to join a local metropolitan area group… but they only cover up til a few towns away (at least with position disclosed nodes)