<div dir="ltr"><div>In the early days of wifi I had good success with wifi over 4km from Diamond Harbour to Lyttelton using a bow tie antenna similar to this one: <a href="https://nz.pinterest.com/pin/759630662129071602/">https://nz.pinterest.com/pin/759630662129071602/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Richard</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM Daniel Powell <<a href="mailto:danielvieway@hotmail.com">danielvieway@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg3322706633519240199">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">ESPNow, or WiFi LR, both Expressive protocols. Wifi LR does 1km line of sight or more with good antennas. ESPNow does 500m line of sight, but again more with a reasonable external
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Daniel.
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Beckett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 13 May 2025 4:53 pm<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [chbot] LoRa peer to peer<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">I've played with NRF24L01 and easily done 400m.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">On eissue is with the high power versions you need a bit of physical seperation otherwise it seems to overwhelm the front end.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">There is a lot of discussion on LoRa and hardware on the discord
<a href="https://discord.com/channels/1215950134874210334/1218106537403220018" target="_blank">https://discord.com/channels/1215950134874210334/1218106537403220018</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Candara",sans-serif">They mainly use 915 Mhz.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 13/05/25 14:59, Robin Gilks wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm looking for a radio link that has a bit better range than an NRF24L01 which I have found doesn't really make 100m reliably. Got some sx1278 modules (for use on 433MHz) on order so I'll be able to experiment but any pointers or experiences
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