We’re making progress getting the repeater network built up. We just installed point I and P, and brought B and E back online.

We’re able to get messages from downtown Lexington to Man O War near Richmond road. Our next goal is to either connect A to P via a repeater or two or via a couple repeaters in the Nicholasville Rd Area and add repeaters in the Harrodsburg Rd area to get a connection to downtown. If you’d like to help with those or other spots, we’d love to hear from you.

Legend:

Dots

Green: Online

Yellow: Offline at the moment

Orange: Possible Additions (unless better spots are found)

Lines

• Dashed
  • Green: Theoretical Repeater Connectivity
  • Black: Borderline/Possible Repeater Connectivity
• Solid
  • Green: Tested/Confirmed Repeater Connectivity
  • Red: Line of Sight is blocked by terrain, no connectivity.

We’re in the process of getting a MeshCore network setup in Lexington, KY.

We’ve been experimenting with settings and learning what works best for the area over the past few weeks. We’ve currently settled on the Standard US settings with a couple of tweaks.

If you are having reliability issues with your companion or repeater, change your cr setting from 5 to 8. This is compatible with the network. It’s a bit slower, but is a bit more reliable. As the network gets established, you may be able to change back to 5.

If you’re using a Heltec v4 as a repeater,

Using the Command Line in the MeshCore App, type the following
set int.thresh 14
set agc.reset.interval 12

This helps with handling noise.

We’ll post more as we learn what works for our area.