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How is that even fucking possible? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last night, my node showed that it received information from a node 100 miles away, and I dismissed it as just a weird artifact. But tonight, my node is showing that there are three nodes that are around 220 miles away. I do not have MQTT enabled on downlink so they are definitely over RF. But how is that even fucking possible? I live in an area where the mesh is not super well built up and there are only a few people locally that have nodes and I would expect to get nodes from a lot closer than 200 miles away or even 100 miles away considering there are two decently large cities only 70 miles away. Also, so far I have only gotten these messages at night.

Edit: Correction, they are between 270 and 320 miles away.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

My first guess would be that those nodes had a poor GPS lock and are actually much closer. Unless you've received multiple reports from them where the location is about the same (better if it changes a little bit so you know they're not just retransmitting the same inaccurate position because they can't get a good GPS lock), in which case some spooky rf stuff is probably happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

A lot of them are now saying unrecognized.