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Speaker 1: is the best mesh Tastic device that you can get
Speaker 1: for a starter if you're just getting started into the
Speaker 1: world of mesh Tastic or Laura Wan or long range
Speaker 1: Laura on the nine hundred and fifteen megahertz band in
Speaker 1: the USA, which is called the ISM band. If you're
Speaker 1: just getting started, where to start, where to go, what
Speaker 1: to get and maybe some discounts that I have for you,
Speaker 1: my audience, So stick around. So this is an article
Speaker 1: that I found. I don't even remember where I found
Speaker 1: this article. Actually, this is on a Drillian dot com
Speaker 1: Adrillien dot com. It's a blog post, okay, but it
Speaker 1: caught my eye. It was written in February of this year,
Speaker 1: and it caught my eye because it says, what is
Speaker 1: the best device for Meshtastic. Now, these are some really
Speaker 1: cool looking outdoor enclosures he's got on these nodes right here,
Speaker 1: and I don't even know what that is, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure you could go find him on his blog if
Speaker 1: you want to. So he says, we talked about Meshtastic
Speaker 1: in another post full guide to how to get started.
Speaker 1: He got a link right there. I will link this article,
Speaker 1: this blog post in the description below so that you
Speaker 1: guys can go find that and read more about it yourself.
Speaker 1: But he lists four devices, all of which I have,
Speaker 1: and I think he's correct in what he said about
Speaker 1: each one. And I'm gonna give you one, maybe two
Speaker 1: more that I would recommend for those of you who
Speaker 1: get a little bit more seasoned into the world of Meshtastic. Now,
Speaker 1: this is my current This is my current stash right here. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna talk about this device and this device
Speaker 1: and this device and this device. We're not going to
Speaker 1: talk about that one today. We're talking about this one
Speaker 1: a little bit, that battery whatnot. So this is my
Speaker 1: current stash that I've got. But I wanted to read
Speaker 1: you guys this blog post and see what you thought
Speaker 1: about it, and some of you, I'm getting email. I'm
Speaker 1: starting to get emails from Meshtastic vendors now and from
Speaker 1: Meshtastic interested parties, and say where should I start? So
Speaker 1: he lists all his links here to Ali Express. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you three different places you can buy this
Speaker 1: stuff besides Ali Express in case you don't want to
Speaker 1: shop there. Some people don't like shopping there. This Lilygo
Speaker 1: t Echo. I'm not exactly sure why he lists that
Speaker 1: one at the top. These don't seem to be any
Speaker 1: specific order at all, but the first one he lists
Speaker 1: is the Lilygo t Echo Meshtastic. I've got this device
Speaker 1: right here. I just got this in haven't really done
Speaker 1: much with it yet. I'm going to record a new
Speaker 1: video about this device very soon. But he says, the
Speaker 1: t Echo is like an all in one package. It's
Speaker 1: got a backlit e inc screen, five point zero bluetooth,
Speaker 1: GPS okay, GPS's that's one thing that some devices do
Speaker 1: and some device do not have, and it's it might
Speaker 1: be something that you want, it might be something that
Speaker 1: you don't want, depending on whether you want your GPS.
Speaker 1: Your current GPS location always beaconing. So we'll get to
Speaker 1: that later, a newer chip, the SX twelve sixty two chip,
Speaker 1: an eight hundred and fifty milliamp hour battery packed into
Speaker 1: a sleek case. No fuess, no soldering, no needed. Thanks
Speaker 1: to whatever that is, it keeps going without stressing over power. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is an all in one package. So that
Speaker 1: makes sense. Now I kind of understand why he listed
Speaker 1: that one first. A lot of these, the first two
Speaker 1: or three devices I got, I had to put together myself.
Speaker 1: I have to solder a screen onto the T beam.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that here in a second.
Speaker 1: You have to put together the hell Tech V three,
Speaker 1: which is not hard. You just snap it together. But
Speaker 1: then you have to get an external case for it.
Speaker 1: You have to get a third party case for it
Speaker 1: and put a battery in it, because the way the
Speaker 1: Helltech comes it doesn't have a way to carry a
Speaker 1: battery on its own. But we're going to get to
Speaker 1: all that here in just a second. So stick around,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about this. So this one right
Speaker 1: here is he lists the pros as in r F
Speaker 1: five two eight forty, which is far more powerful and
Speaker 1: efficient than an ESP thirty two. I might have to
Speaker 1: look that up and see what it is. I think
Speaker 1: that's a chip. I think he's talking about the chip
Speaker 1: the or no, he's SX twelve forty two chip. Hold on,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna google that over here at Norda.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, over here at Mauser, which is actually written
Speaker 1: down the road from where I live from Nordic Semiconductor.
Speaker 1: This is an RF system on a chip, an SoC
Speaker 1: SO RF system on a chip. Sc that number q
Speaker 1: I AA QFN seventy three L seven x seven data
Speaker 1: sheet there. This is more information than most people are
Speaker 1: generally gonna need or want or care about. But it
Speaker 1: is the chip on the board, or one of the
Speaker 1: chips on the board. So it's more efficient than the
Speaker 1: ESP thirty two, which is a lot of times the
Speaker 1: chip that's on a lot of these Laura boards. So
Speaker 1: it has GPS and has a battery included. That's good,
Speaker 1: battery included, e ink screen. Newer Laura chip with case
Speaker 1: comes with its own little case right here. That's good,
Speaker 1: ready to use. Some versions with a B and ME
Speaker 1: two eighty censor for telemetry like pressure, temperature, commidity. The
Speaker 1: cons is that the little price it does not have
Speaker 1: Wi Fi stock is limited. Screen a little bit finicky
Speaker 1: and no easily upgraded. So there's two ways you can
Speaker 1: control your Meshtastic device. Okay, you can connect to your
Speaker 1: device via Bluetooth. Most of them have that, and most
Speaker 1: of them have also Wi Fi, so you can change.
Speaker 1: And one of the dumb things about Meshtastic at least
Speaker 1: the units I have. Maybe there's a unit out there
Speaker 1: that'll do both Bluetooth and Wi Fi, but the units
Speaker 1: I have, the t Beam, the Helltech, and the Well
Speaker 1: I guess the t Echo doesn't even have a choice
Speaker 1: for Wi Fi. It'll only use one at a time.
Speaker 1: If you turn on Wi Fi, it comes default. The
Speaker 1: Helltech and the t Beam come default with Bluetooth on,
Speaker 1: So you just bluetooth it to your phone and wherever
Speaker 1: my phone is, and you use the Meshtastic app to
Speaker 1: connect to it from your phone, and then you can
Speaker 1: turn on Wi Fi on the device the device reboots,
Speaker 1: and when the device reboots, it turns off Bluetooth, so
Speaker 1: you can no longer connect via Bluetooth to your phone.
Speaker 1: You have to connect to the same Wi Fi network
Speaker 1: that your Meshtastic device is connected. To connect your phone
Speaker 1: and your Meshtastic device the same Wi Fi network and
Speaker 1: the app will then scan and it should automatically pull
Speaker 1: up the DHCPIP address for the meshtastic device, and then
Speaker 1: you can control it from Wi Fi. Those of you
Speaker 1: with nodes high up on a tower at your home,
Speaker 1: maybe it's out of range of Bluetooth, you can control
Speaker 1: these via Wi Fi, assuming you have Wi Fi outside
Speaker 1: that will reach your tower, your push up pull, your
Speaker 1: push up master, something like that. So two different ways
Speaker 1: to control it. But as of yet, I've not seen
Speaker 1: a device where it will have Wi Fi and Bluetooth
Speaker 1: both enabled at the same time. Maybe some of the
Speaker 1: more expensive devices will do that, if you guys know
Speaker 1: of one, put a comment in the video. Blow and
Speaker 1: again he lists all these on the Ali Express page here,
Speaker 1: and the Alli Express page is listed at sixty three
Speaker 1: ninety eight. Now they fluctuate prices quite a bit right now,
Speaker 1: it's actually forty eight ninety four at Ali Express. And
Speaker 1: I was looking at a couple of things at Alli Express.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, see this is what Ali Express they want
Speaker 1: you to want you to do. Okay, No, I don't
Speaker 1: want your stupid notifications. They want you to buy one.
Speaker 1: If I go over here to the quantity down here,
Speaker 1: I cannot increase the quantity. Like if I was to buy,
Speaker 1: if I say, oh that's a good price, I want
Speaker 1: to buy two or three or five of those, they
Speaker 1: won't let me do that. It only let me buy one.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of that's kind of lame because Ali
Speaker 1: Express there. So after looking at Ali Express, I've got
Speaker 1: I've got I've got three other stores here I'm gonna
Speaker 1: share with you today, different things, different to different stuff.
Speaker 1: Rockland dot com which recently contacted me and uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna work out maybe a coupon code at some point
Speaker 1: in time. But they've got the they're sold out right now.
Speaker 1: They've got the t Echo for with the same chip
Speaker 1: GPS nine ERN fifty megaheurts, which is what you want
Speaker 1: if you're in the USA SX twelve sixty two wireless module.
Speaker 1: It's out of stock. It's for sixty seven dollars, and
Speaker 1: then Amazon has it for sixty one dollars and it's
Speaker 1: in stock. A lot of you like to shop on Amazon.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit safer. Returns are easier on Amazon
Speaker 1: than they are on Ali Express. I can guarantee you that.
Speaker 1: So for forty eight bucks, I would probably buy one
Speaker 1: of these on Ali Express. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: shipping would be, they're not gonna get well, it says
Speaker 1: free shipping right here, Okay, free shipping between June thirtieth
Speaker 1: and July sixth, So this is a special they're running.
Speaker 1: I'm recording this video ten days before June thirtieth, so
Speaker 1: i'll see. I'll do my best to post this in time,
Speaker 1: but if not, then it might be closer to the
Speaker 1: sixty four dollars price here. So sixty four dollars here
Speaker 1: is the normal price, sixty seven here, and then sixty one,
Speaker 1: and they've got two or three different versions here on
Speaker 1: the Amazon Store, so that's what that is. So you're
Speaker 1: looking at you're looking at about sixty to sixty five
Speaker 1: dollars for the t Echo, and that's number one on
Speaker 1: the list today. The second one he lists is the
Speaker 1: T Beam. Now the T Beam device. Again, these are
Speaker 1: not in any specific quarder, but the T Beam device
Speaker 1: was actually the first ever mess Tastic device that I got.
Speaker 1: This is the one here that I have in this
Speaker 1: Spec five case. I did a video about this that'll
Speaker 1: post at some point in time. I don't know if
Speaker 1: before after the video you're watching right now. But the
Speaker 1: T Beam is nice because it comes with an onboard
Speaker 1: GPS and it's a little bit cheaper. You do have
Speaker 1: to solder this screen onto it, this screen that you
Speaker 1: see in the picture right here. It does not come
Speaker 1: with the screen. You can buy the board by itself.
Speaker 1: You buy the screen separately, and then you have to
Speaker 1: solder them together. So those of you who are reluctant
Speaker 1: about soldering, you may not like this one, or you
Speaker 1: may just want to buy one that's fully assembled, if
Speaker 1: you could find that. I like the T Beam because
Speaker 1: it does already have a port on it for an
Speaker 1: external antenna, so you can unscrew this contenna you see
Speaker 1: on it right now, and you can put a larger,
Speaker 1: longer Intenta on it. You can put a mag mount
Speaker 1: Intendna on your vehicle and connect it here. So it's
Speaker 1: got a couple other options to that. It says it's
Speaker 1: ready to go with a battery holder, reasonable prize, GPS,
Speaker 1: WI FI, newer loada chip, Loda. I wonder if he
Speaker 1: means lorda chip, why user base, SMA connector Yes, CON's
Speaker 1: battery not included, no case included, little large esp hungry
Speaker 1: power consumption, no upgradeability, customizability, okay, And then he's got
Speaker 1: these different versions of the Tea Beam right here, so
Speaker 1: I would pretty much agree with that list. This was
Speaker 1: the first device that I ever had, and it is
Speaker 1: power hungry. It uses the battery a little bit faster
Speaker 1: than my Heltech device, which we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: here in a second. I've not compared it to the
Speaker 1: to the t Echo device yet, so maybe that's another
Speaker 1: video I'll do in the future. But unlike the Helltech
Speaker 1: it has GPS. So you've got the meshtastic Laura radio
Speaker 1: running on nine hundred and fifty megahertz and you've got
Speaker 1: the GPS radio running for the t Beam device, so
Speaker 1: that may be one reason why it is more power hungry.
Speaker 1: Now he has the price listed from Ali Express right
Speaker 1: here is thirty five to ninety eight. I'm gonna click
Speaker 1: on that and see how accurate and update eight that is,
Speaker 1: so four dollars less. Again, you can only buy one, no,
Speaker 1: it'll let you buy multiples one, okay, So the sales
Speaker 1: not running on this one right here, So thirty five
Speaker 1: dollars free shipping for that one week from Ali Express.
Speaker 1: If we go over here to Rockland, it's about forty
Speaker 1: four dollars seventy one in the US warehouse as at
Speaker 1: the time of this recording. Right here, No with OLED
Speaker 1: Oh that comes with a display. Okay, then with o
Speaker 1: lead display soldered, so these guys will put it on
Speaker 1: for you. Okay. I've shared the link to this in
Speaker 1: the description blow of course. And then over here on
Speaker 1: my Amazon store, I've got the this listed. It does
Speaker 1: not come let's see soldered. Oh yeah, this one actually
Speaker 1: does also come. The one that I bought from Amazon
Speaker 1: did not come with the screen. So this one here
Speaker 1: I found later on thirty seven to fifty on Amazon.
Speaker 1: This is going to be the better buye right now,
Speaker 1: because this is Amazon. If you're in the United States,
Speaker 1: Amazon returns are easy, and then you can also get
Speaker 1: an extended antenna for it and get yourself an eighteen
Speaker 1: six fifty battery hopefully like a Samsung or Panasonic version,
Speaker 1: but about thirty seven, just under thirty five to forty
Speaker 1: bucks for that one T beam. That's the one I
Speaker 1: have running in my truck right now. Again, it does
Speaker 1: have GPS. I really like that one, so good. Good
Speaker 1: second choice on the list here. The third win he
Speaker 1: has is this wise block Meshtastic starter kit official price
Speaker 1: at the alle Express store is twenty four to ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna click on that. Oh and he's got Okay,
Speaker 1: so there's all these different modules you can get here.
Speaker 1: So board and module one is twenty four to ninety nine,
Speaker 1: so you get all the different stuff here. That kind
Speaker 1: of thing. This board is actually inside that. This is
Speaker 1: what the board is. That's actually inside of the rack
Speaker 1: Wireless kit, the one that I bought from Garth on
Speaker 1: Etsy that I did a video about a while back,
Speaker 1: with the waterproof enclosure and solar panel on top of it.
Speaker 1: So these are pretty popular again. Ali Express has enlisted
Speaker 1: for twenty four to ninety nine for the base model. Okay,
Speaker 1: that one's fine. Over here at Rockland they got them
Speaker 1: listed for thirty seven ninety seven. Comes uh, what has
Speaker 1: several options for add ons. You have to compare the
Speaker 1: base model to see if that's the same thing. But
Speaker 1: after doing a couple of Meshtastic videos, I actually got
Speaker 1: an email from Rackwireless dot com themselves. They're the ones
Speaker 1: who make this. They've got this basic starter kit for
Speaker 1: twenty nine to ninety nine. So they say send me
Speaker 1: a link to their store and they offer you, guys,
Speaker 1: my viewers, a three percent discount with the coupon code
Speaker 1: of mesh Tastic dash Ham Radio two. So you can
Speaker 1: get three percent off of this starter kit here or
Speaker 1: anything else on this website. I'll leave a link in
Speaker 1: the description blow. Okay, so this one's This one at
Speaker 1: Rockland is a little bit more, but it might include
Speaker 1: more stuff too. I'm not going through and doing a
Speaker 1: deep diving all these kids. This is the basic starter
Speaker 1: kit here. You have to choose what you want over here,
Speaker 1: and then this one here on Ali expresses about the
Speaker 1: same price. So if you good option to not have
Speaker 1: to shop on Ali Express, get it from rock Wireless,
Speaker 1: use my coupon code and get a better discount going
Speaker 1: that way. Anyway, So before we get to the fourth one,
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Speaker 1: All right. Fourth and final device is this Heltech V three. Now,
Speaker 1: this one is probably the easiest one to use, with
Speaker 1: the exception of the fact that it doesn't come with
Speaker 1: its own battery. Okay, it comes with the screenslottered on.
Speaker 1: It comes with this little jumper right here. It comes
Speaker 1: with this antenna that you see, and a lot of
Speaker 1: places you can buy it with that little case that
Speaker 1: that little itty bitty white and blue case that it
Speaker 1: comes with. But the problem is that case won't hold
Speaker 1: a battery. So if you click on Ali Express, they
Speaker 1: actually have them for eleven fifty right now. Okay, that
Speaker 1: link at the previous page says twenty one dollars. It's
Speaker 1: actually eleven fifty right now, and this goes through July seventh.
Speaker 1: It's a different sale, but again you cannot order more
Speaker 1: than one. I was gonna go through and order like
Speaker 1: ten of these and put them in mystery boxes. But
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't, and we'll levey. This is the
Speaker 1: case that sometimes they come with. So yeah, you can
Speaker 1: get them for a dirt cheap price from Alley Express
Speaker 1: right now, free shipping, I guess, but you can only
Speaker 1: order one, so it kind of makes it maybe not
Speaker 1: worth it. I don't know. I don't know. We'll see.
Speaker 1: But the good thing about these is there are plenty
Speaker 1: of options for battery or three D printed case or
Speaker 1: antennas for them. If you don't want to go over
Speaker 1: to Alley Express, I suggest going over here. This is
Speaker 1: my mesh Tastic Devices in Acessory store on Amazon, okay,
Speaker 1: and I have this kit right here, which this is
Speaker 1: for two of them. You get two of them with
Speaker 1: the riser cards, with the battery cable and the Helltech case. Okay.
Speaker 1: But you know, like on Amazon, you scroll down, it
Speaker 1: offers you more suggestions whatnot. So you can get one
Speaker 1: of these for like twenty three dollars right now. Twenty
Speaker 1: three dollars. It's got a seven percent coupon off on
Speaker 1: it right now. It comes with all of this stuff,
Speaker 1: and then you have to put your own case and
Speaker 1: battery in it. And over here on my Amazon store,
Speaker 1: I've got these what to calls pillow batteries, these life
Speaker 1: po four pillow batteries. I've got one of those here
Speaker 1: I'll show you in a second. And then of course
Speaker 1: some of these you can put an eighteen six fifty
Speaker 1: in also, And I got the eighteen six fifty batteries
Speaker 1: right there. So if we want to go over here
Speaker 1: and look at the overhead, all of these right here,
Speaker 1: this one, this one, and this one. These three are
Speaker 1: all hell tech boards inside of different cases. I've got
Speaker 1: a video that I recorded about this geolink case. There's
Speaker 1: an eighteen six fifty in here. That will be a
Speaker 1: video on the channel that you'll probably see before this video. Here,
Speaker 1: this guy, this is a case that Josh printed for
Speaker 1: me at Ham Benson when we all got together and
Speaker 1: started tinkering around with mesh tastic at a big ham Fest.
Speaker 1: And of course it's got the larger larger Intenta on it,
Speaker 1: which you can you can add this to the This
Speaker 1: case comes with the antenna port you can add to it.
Speaker 1: This one does too, And of course this is another
Speaker 1: one that I think Mike printed me this one, and
Speaker 1: you can add another intent of that if you want to.
Speaker 1: But these are great because you can see the screen
Speaker 1: on them. They've got internal batteries. These two have the
Speaker 1: pillow batteries in them, which is this guy right here,
Speaker 1: and this one has an eighteen six fifty, so this
Speaker 1: case is a little bit larger. These do not have GPS.
Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about that. These batteries three thousand,
Speaker 1: these three thousand million empower pillow batteries last longer than
Speaker 1: the eighteen six fifty battery that I have in here.
Speaker 1: But the eighteen six fifty battery that's in here is
Speaker 1: a knockoff brand. It has false advertising on the label
Speaker 1: on it, so it doesn't it doesn't do much for that.
Speaker 1: The best battery to get is going to be one
Speaker 1: of these Samsung, these green batteries here, so I'm told.
Speaker 1: So I'm told these Samsung slash Panasonic batteries are much
Speaker 1: better one hundred percent authentic Samsung twenty five or three
Speaker 1: dot seven volt rechargeable for that. So if you want
Speaker 1: eighteen six fifty, that's it. But those are the four
Speaker 1: main devices. Now. The rack wireless device is the one
Speaker 1: that I did the video on it comes to the enclosure.
Speaker 1: You can get those on Etsy. Check out my video.
Speaker 1: I'll link it up here somewhere where you can go
Speaker 1: watch that again. I've got two or three other devices
Speaker 1: that I have picked up. One of them I don't
Speaker 1: have yet, it's on its way to me. One of
Speaker 1: them's inside, and then this one here, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: see that in another video. So I'm not hiding it
Speaker 1: from you. I'm just not showing it to you quite yet.
Speaker 1: This one right here is great. This is called a
Speaker 1: T deck and it's pretty cool because it looks like
Speaker 1: a BlackBerry smartphone. Okay, so Bill WK zero whw hem
Speaker 1: Rito tectonics. Bill, he three D printed this case for me.
Speaker 1: He had one of these at the More Expo and
Speaker 1: he was walking around with it and he actually met
Speaker 1: two or three guys at that show that were on
Speaker 1: Meshtastic beaconing. So we met up with some Meshtastic guys
Speaker 1: at the More Expo an overlanding show. Very cool. This
Speaker 1: is the one that Bill had. You can have this.
Speaker 1: There's a connection on the back here to string an
Speaker 1: intent or a string an external intenda out of here.
Speaker 1: So I haven't put this together yet. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be another video where I put this together. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure exactly what battery you put back here. I think
Speaker 1: it's an eighteen six fifty. But you take this case
Speaker 1: apart that he made for me with these two screws here,
Speaker 1: and that snaps apart. This sits in the top and
Speaker 1: there's a battery that sits underneath it. It charges over
Speaker 1: here down at the bottom. Has got a USB C
Speaker 1: charger right there. So that's another But the cool thing
Speaker 1: about this one is you can type on it. You
Speaker 1: can type your messages on it, and you don't have
Speaker 1: to interface it to your smartphone the way you do
Speaker 1: these other guys. These guys act as radios, but you
Speaker 1: have to run the smartphone out this one right here,
Speaker 1: you can pull up the chat, you can type directly,
Speaker 1: send and receive messages directly from this device. So it's
Speaker 1: an all in one device. Don't even have to have
Speaker 1: the chat. Bill says it runs the battery down a
Speaker 1: lot faster than these other guys do because of the
Speaker 1: larger screen and the more features it has. But that
Speaker 1: is the bonus feature that I was going to tell
Speaker 1: you guys about today. So what other devices in Mesh
Speaker 1: Tastic have you used and what would you suggest? Honestly,
Speaker 1: people who are starting to ask me what should I
Speaker 1: get first, I usually tell them to go get the
Speaker 1: Helltech V three first. It's the easiest one to put together.
Speaker 1: You've got plenty of options for three D printed cases.
Speaker 1: This Geli case that we did a video about a
Speaker 1: while back. I just bought this case on eBay Okay,
Speaker 1: So if you search eBay or Amazon or ali Express
Speaker 1: or bangood or any of these sites for Helltech V
Speaker 1: three meshtastic cases, you can find all kinds of shape, sizes,
Speaker 1: and colors. You can do that for the T Beam.
Speaker 1: Also the Spec five case for the T Beam here,
Speaker 1: that's one of the better cases. That's probably the best
Speaker 1: design case I've ever seen, actually, But that's for the
Speaker 1: T Beam. It does take an eighteen six fifty battery
Speaker 1: and it has GPS in it, where the Helltech does not.
Speaker 1: So the Helltech or the t Beam those are the
Speaker 1: first two and the T Beam. Have to make sure
Speaker 1: you get one with a screen already salted on. When
Speaker 1: I bought these, I didn't have that option, but it
Speaker 1: was probably a year and a half ago when I
Speaker 1: got these. I usually tell people to start with that
Speaker 1: hell Tech V three and kind of go from there.
Speaker 1: And as you can see, my collection has expanded and
Speaker 1: I didn't even really plan that. So but tell me
Speaker 1: what your favorite Meshtastic device is. I'll put a link
Speaker 1: of everything we talked about in the description blow, including
Speaker 1: the coupons. So hope to see you out there on Meshtastic.
Speaker 1: Mine's running in the truck all the time, so when
Speaker 1: I'm driving around North Texas, it's running. When I'm out
Speaker 1: in Utah for the ham con Zion and for our
Speaker 1: Yellowstone trip during the month of July, and at Field
Speaker 1: Day in June, my Meshtastic was running the whole time.
Speaker 1: So hopefully I'll see you out there on Meshtastik seventy three.
Speaker 1: You'll have a good win today.