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Meshtastic 64 – A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64

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123 points geerlingguy | 3 comments | 23 Sep 25 23:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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simonjgreen ◴[27 Sep 25 09:36 UTC] No.45394385[source]▶
Pretty cool. I wish Meshtastic had more focus on routing and a way to safely do store & fwd. It’s difficult to actually mesh well with it. I run a few solar powered higher altitude nodes and provide reasonable coverage but I’ve observed many messages never reach their destination.
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firesteelrain ◴[27 Sep 25 10:16 UTC] No.45394547[source]▶
This. I like the idea of Meshtastic however APRS is much more extensive and even has satellite coverage like the ISS.
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1. rfmoz ◴[27 Sep 25 13:04 UTC] No.45395380[source]▶
It would work a Meshtastic repeater from the ISS?
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2. NoiseBert69 ◴[27 Sep 25 13:32 UTC] No.45395573[source]▶
LoRa is extremely robust and can work with super weak signals. At the price of being very very slow in the most reliable configuration .

That combination is toxic for a high amount of parallel users.

I think it would need big modifications: fast uplink and robust slow downlink.

3. firesteelrain ◴[27 Sep 25 13:37 UTC] No.45395607[source]▶
It would not. We would need to make a case to add Meshtastic. Amateur radio has had a much better chance since the days of the Space Shuttle. Astronauts routinely make ISS to Earth contacts with amateur radio operators. There is also ARISS.

5w ISS contacts are hard enough as it is