All,
Matthew Murphy (KF5NRU) and I are running some parallel processes on the ThinkNode M6. He is on Android and I am on iOS. The apps look completely different from each other, so we are having to be careful to read each others notes carefully. He just took off from the house, but shot me some comments that he wanted me to post up on this thread to give you something more to chew on.
He specifically wanted me to let the group know that he has an active and operating node at 30 feet elevation on his tower in Reno. He encourages that if anyone has one of these devices they can try to connect. His node should show up as “big mind m6“.
His first 72 hours of airtime for his 30 foot beta test is showing promising results. It just sits there and charges and stays connected and outruns it’s battery draw using the built in solar panel. And he has been torture testing it, constantly hammering it with messages just to give it some airtime and try to simulate real world EMCOMM traffic. Real world range as measured by GPS is 3 to as much as 5 miles. He is testing from various distances and looking at terrain and topography and measuring his real world range results while holding the handheld unit chest high.
If anyone has any questions please text or email either of us.
73
Phillip Beall (W5EBC)