Voyajer

The poll was conducted between Feb. 14 and Feb. 17

I didn't even consider the alternative

...Breaking steam up would make it worse.

I'm not any closer to any reservations then so it probably was someone's passion project

I'd rather see competitors actually try and be better than steam rather than make steam worse.

https://meshtastic.org/docs/hardware/antennas/

I've put the gizont antennas on my stuff and I've been happy with them. I've been thinking about upgrading my stationary nodes with something nicer though. More height whenever possible will always be the best way to get more range though.

I've been gifted gold twice and I never understood the appeal of it either, everything in there was self-referential both times I checked.

That's surprising, there was one in the 50k pop town I grew up in.

Heads up, the antennas that often come with the heltec v3 are usually not only not good, but are actually tuned for 868mhz rather than 915mhz. That being said, I get 4-5km though some forest with appropriate antennas.

I'm talking about the tft-gui-work branch of the meshtastic firmware repository.

Hello! I have a T-deck so I can share some of my experiences with it as far as it being ready or not for primary use. First, the fancy UI is currently in an experimental state and it's not easily flashable like other hardware is. There is a precompiled build on the net somewhere but it is ~5 months old at this point and crashes a lot. When it is working it works well enough, some things aren't implemented yet like the map though.

Briar seems like meshtastic but with no additional hardware at the expense of significantly less range when offline.