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

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:    • This device makes Meshtastic the BEST off-...  

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-...
Augustana College students build Meshtastic nodes: https://www.wqad.com/article/news/loc...
Asheville residents talk Meshtastic after Helene:   / is_anyone_considering_meshtastic_as_a_star...  

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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