I made it back to Columbus safely ๐
Spent the day at #hamvention2026 with my dad. It was.... Overwhelming. He just got his license in January. I've never learned much about it, and we were both thrown into the throngs of people nerding out about it.
I did learn a little bit more about meshtastic / meshcore and decided that it's probably not popular enough here for us to have enough nodes to communicate between our houses.
I am considering General Mobile Radio Service though.
I don't think I'm going to head back to Hamvention tomorrow ๐ข
I have to be back in Columbus before the closing ceremony begins...
So, I've put vanilla/stock Meshtastic back on my portable node, and restored the keys/configs
I hope everyone has safe travels back home!
I made it back to my friend's place for the evening.
I ducked out a little early from Hamvention
I got really exhausted from being on my feet all day, BUT I did get that antenna I was looking for ordered!
I'll be posting a blog post with more pictures within the next week or so ๐ I took a lot more pictures today!
it's great to see so many newer logging apps popping up here at Hamvention
so far, I've seen, World Radio League, HamLog.Online, and HamTrax.com
I'm sure there are more here that I've missed