Subj : Re: LoRa
To   : All
From : Warpslide
Date : Fri Dec 24 2021 02:50 pm

On 22 Dec 2021, Vk3jed said the following...
 
 Wa> I just watched some YouTube videos on it and some people were getting
 Wa> 2-3km on a quick test walking the dog and others were boasting ~20KM.
 Wa> I see one video where someone got more than 100KM!

 Vk> The tech does seem capable of really good range, which is a point of
 Vk> interest for me.  I'd like to see what the paths were like.

My father-in-law gave me some cash for xmas, so I just ordered two Adafruit RFM95W modules to play with:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4074

Along with the 900MHz antenna kit:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3340

They should arrive next week some time.

Looking forward to playing around with these.  My father-in-law lives about 9.2km away (as the crow flies), so once I get more familiar with these modules I may try putting a Pi at his place and see if I can get them talking to each other.

There are several houses, forests, farmland & businesses in the path along with a big meat processing factory so I may have to raise the antennas up high to get the range.  I'll play around with it at shorter distances before trying something that far away.


Jay

.... Monday is a hard way to spend one-seventh of your life.

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