[Swansea Hackspace] Things network Swansea

[Justin Mitchell]

On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 16:20 +0100, Paul Harwood wrote:
> We’ll stick it on the roof to try and get as much out of it as
> possible. But yeah, the signal will get absorbed if it is low down.
> Perhaps could be boosted with a powered antenna.
> 
> Record I think is 13km in holland. 


Clearly you have never watched any of Andreas Spiess' youtube videos :)
He got over 100km between a handheld LoRa node and an outdoor mountain
top gateway site, but that was in switzerland which has plenty of
mountains to help out with the line of sight.

There is a project in progress to install public LoRa nodes in south
wales, a friend of mine Richard Wenner is involved, based in Cardiff.

The hackspace was offered a gateway and antenna to run a swansea node,
but alas we dont have roof access, so other sites are being
investigated. I will try and get hold of him and point him at this
discussion.