The Bay Area Mesh group is launching two high-altitude balloons in a few minutes, each carrying Meshtastic radios in the payload. Watch the live stream here: https://youtube.com/live/j7MsniL_C3I

Let’s see how high Meshtastic can fly.

OK, the big experiment has begun. A ham radio group has funded the scanning of 4,000 manuals from the Great Manuals Plus Haul. Now, the experiment is - will people kick on a special link in the blog entry to help fund the other 20 PALLETS of manuals?

https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/24/a-happy-ending-for-some-manual-labor-and-a-call-for-support/

I built myself one of these today for some /p action when it gets warmer again. Nice and simple λ 1/4 antenna. The plan is to use it with an ADX-S qrp TRX which yet has to be delivered from china.

Antenna poject from here (in german only): https://draussenfunker.de/diy/teleskop-viertelwellen-vertical.html

ADX-S TRX https://crkits.com/

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