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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Companies are starting to manufacture repeaters and they are not that expensive. You can get one for about 100 Federal Reserve Notes.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I’ve seen some clever stuff where they take a solar powered light and wire in a Heltec V3 for $30-$40. But I thought one of the new upcoming standards (WiFi? Cell?) incorporated a mesh capability.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Not that im aware of. SeeedStudio has released a new solar node to be a repeater though

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sucks you can’t charge it and have to instead go to a central bank to exchange minted coins for notes that you can exchange for the commodity that is the radio.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

“Money can be exchanged for goods and services” - Homer Simpson