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<v Speaker 1>Got a new mesh Tastic device, a couple of them,

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<v Speaker 1>the Think node M one and M two. These come

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<v Speaker 1>from Ella crow. Elli crow was gracious and kind enough

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<v Speaker 1>to send those to me, and we're going to talk

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<v Speaker 1>about those and how they compare it to a few

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<v Speaker 1>other nodes today. So this is the This one's kind

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<v Speaker 1>of cool because you can adjust the screen brightness with

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<v Speaker 1>the power knob. Turn this power knob on and off here,

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<v Speaker 1>and if you turn it up there, the screen gets

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<v Speaker 1>brighter and brighter and brighter to there, and you turn

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<v Speaker 1>it all the way to the left like that, and

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<v Speaker 1>it goes back to the screen that you can see

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<v Speaker 1>easily in the sun. And then you've turned it one

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<v Speaker 1>click to the left, it'll power off the device. Kind

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<v Speaker 1>of a neat thing there. This one here is smaller

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<v Speaker 1>and a little bit less capable in my opinion. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to send some messages back and forth today between

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<v Speaker 1>my sense of cap T one thousand to these two

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<v Speaker 1>and just kind of show you what meshtastic looks like.

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<v Speaker 1>You've probably seen that before, but in case you've never

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<v Speaker 1>heard of these think nodes, these are fairly new. The

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<v Speaker 1>Think one M two is the smaller guy right here,

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<v Speaker 1>This one does not have removable antenna, is a fixed

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<v Speaker 1>antenna smaller. It's got a black screen with blue text

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<v Speaker 1>on it, which I kind of prefer. I like it

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit better. According to the website here, it's

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<v Speaker 1>got a ESP thirty two S three chip in it.

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<v Speaker 1>Powered by an ESP thirty two S three chip you

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<v Speaker 1>can see right here. It sells for forty three to

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<v Speaker 1>ninety on the Lacrow website. I'm gonna share a link

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<v Speaker 1>to this in the description blow once again, these were

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<v Speaker 1>sent to me by Ella Crow, so I appreciate them

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<v Speaker 1>reaching out. They've got a lot of different things on

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<v Speaker 1>this website over here. Mestastic Laura when a bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>other stuff besides just meshtastic. So check out the website.

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<v Speaker 1>In the description blow. The cool thing about this M

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<v Speaker 1>one Now, the M one is larger, more powerful, and

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<v Speaker 1>has a few more functions. I would have called the

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<v Speaker 1>M two the larger one. So the M one is

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<v Speaker 1>the larger and better one. The M two is the

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<v Speaker 1>smaller and less capable one. Nothing wrong with the M two,

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<v Speaker 1>It's just it's got the ESP thirty two chip on it.

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<v Speaker 1>But the M one here has the NRF chip on it,

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<v Speaker 1>right here this new NRF fifty two eight forty. But

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<v Speaker 1>the cool thing about this chip is I have a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of other nodes from other brands with this chip,

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<v Speaker 1>and the battery on this chip lasts two to three

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<v Speaker 1>times as long as any of the ESP thirty two

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<v Speaker 1>chips here. So it's anohing wrong with the ESP thirty

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<v Speaker 1>two chip has been around for a long time. Most

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<v Speaker 1>of your helltechs have it ESP thirty two chip in them.

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<v Speaker 1>A lot of your older Spec fives and seed studios

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<v Speaker 1>stuff have ESP thirty two chips in it. A lot

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<v Speaker 1>of ESP thirty two chips out there. But this NRF

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<v Speaker 1>chip is a little bit newer, and the battery life

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<v Speaker 1>on it is much much longer than what the old

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<v Speaker 1>ESP thirty two chip is. So I've, you know, just

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<v Speaker 1>something that's different between these two nodes. This one also

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<v Speaker 1>has a GPS function. Now, if we go over here,

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<v Speaker 1>go back over here to the overhead. You can see

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<v Speaker 1>right here the scroll buttons up and down right here

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<v Speaker 1>on the unit are for scrolling through what you see

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<v Speaker 1>on the screen. Turn the screen up right there, and

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<v Speaker 1>then once you see the screen, you can see the

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<v Speaker 1>nodes that have been meshed on the screen there. You

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<v Speaker 1>can page through them here and send messages that way,

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<v Speaker 1>or you can read messages. You'd have to send messages

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<v Speaker 1>with the app. Still, this is a toggle switch off

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<v Speaker 1>and on right here where you can turn the GPS

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<v Speaker 1>off and on, so you have the option for GPS

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<v Speaker 1>and you don't have to use it all the time,

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<v Speaker 1>which I thought was a cool feature. I thought that

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<v Speaker 1>was a cool feature that you didn't have to use

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<v Speaker 1>the GPS one hundred percent of the time. If you

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<v Speaker 1>ever wanted to go in and turn the GPS off

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<v Speaker 1>for whatever reason not use it at all, you could

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<v Speaker 1>totally do that. So let's connect to mesh tastic and

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<v Speaker 1>see what it looks like on the screen. There's been

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of updates lately to the latest version of

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<v Speaker 1>the Android app. I don't have an iPhone, so I

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<v Speaker 1>can't tell you about the iPhone app. But traditionally speaking,

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<v Speaker 1>the iPhone app has had more than the Android app

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<v Speaker 1>as far as meshtastic goes. I think the developers just

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<v Speaker 1>work on it more, or maybe it's been around longer

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<v Speaker 1>and there's more features on the iPhone app than the

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<v Speaker 1>Android app traditionally, but this Android app certainly has a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of features on it today, and they've definitely been

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<v Speaker 1>working on it and developing it more so I've been

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<v Speaker 1>very pleased to see that lately. All right here on

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<v Speaker 1>the screen for the Android app for Meshtastic, we see, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>that's the long fast room. So I'm going to go

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<v Speaker 1>back over here to nodes. Okay, a MYKC five HWB pocket,

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<v Speaker 1>the one at the top here. This is the node

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<v Speaker 1>that I still carry with me on a daily basis.

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<v Speaker 1>This is my T one thousand sens acap node testing

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<v Speaker 1>a couple other nodes that might end up replacing that one,

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<v Speaker 1>because that is a fantastic node for receiving, but transmitting

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<v Speaker 1>is a little bit lack because of the small antenna

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<v Speaker 1>in it, but it does have an excellent receiver. But

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<v Speaker 1>you see those the think node M two and M

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<v Speaker 1>one there at the top of the screen. And then

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<v Speaker 1>this is some other stuff I've seen over the last

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<v Speaker 1>few days since I've reset my node database, which I

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<v Speaker 1>guess I need to do again. Right there, so I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to put let's see, I'm going to go to

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<v Speaker 1>conversations and we're just going to do long fast here,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm going to say, okay, test from pocket right there,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna send that. And now we've got these beeping

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<v Speaker 1>at us right here. Both of these are beeping at

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<v Speaker 1>us right here, so I don't know if you can

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<v Speaker 1>hear that in the microphone or not. They've got the

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<v Speaker 1>long notification string on them, which you can go into

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<v Speaker 1>the app and change that. I can connect the app

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<v Speaker 1>here to either one of these nodes, and I can

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<v Speaker 1>change the notification to only notify for one second. I

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<v Speaker 1>think the fault is like thirty seconds. I have no

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<v Speaker 1>idea why they default to a thirty second notification per message.

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<v Speaker 1>If you're in a high density environment with mestastic and

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<v Speaker 1>you're you're having a lot of people send messages at

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<v Speaker 1>one time, then that gets really annoying really fast. But

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<v Speaker 1>you can see test from pocket on the screen of

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<v Speaker 1>both of those right there, and okay, stop that one.

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<v Speaker 1>And these don't have keyboards on them, and unfortunately I

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<v Speaker 1>can't reply from the node. I can see the message,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I can open up my Connected Advice my

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<v Speaker 1>iPhone or Android, whichever it might be, and then we

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<v Speaker 1>can go in there and reply to it that way.

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<v Speaker 1>But at least you can read the message on the screen.

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<v Speaker 1>So if a conversation is going on and someone's talking,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's like, hey, they're talking to somebody else. They're

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<v Speaker 1>not really talking to me. I heard the notification sound.

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<v Speaker 1>I looked up. I was like, oh, there's two other

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<v Speaker 1>guys talking. I'm not part of this conversation. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>have to grab my phone and get it out and

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<v Speaker 1>look around for, you know, to try to reply to it.

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<v Speaker 1>So but one of the things I really like about

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<v Speaker 1>this one again, it's the last thing I'll say about

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<v Speaker 1>this one here, is that this antenna is I said

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<v Speaker 1>early on this antenna was that this is the Pocket

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<v Speaker 1>M two. Again. I think they're named backwards. I think

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<v Speaker 1>the M two should be the bigger one because it's

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<v Speaker 1>the higher number. I mean, that's just my opinion. I

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<v Speaker 1>just think that's a little bit strange. But this is

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<v Speaker 1>the M one and this is the M two right here.

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<v Speaker 1>So the M two has got this fixed antenna right here.

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<v Speaker 1>It does not move at all. Power button right there,

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<v Speaker 1>paging through the menus button right there. I can go

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<v Speaker 1>and hit that and it toggles through the screen right there,

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<v Speaker 1>just like that shows me my battery case five HMBBF

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<v Speaker 1>two fifty. That's the note in my truck. It saw

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<v Speaker 1>that a few days ago. It says unknown age pocket

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<v Speaker 1>was two minutes ago. It's less than that. Actually, M one,

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<v Speaker 1>which is this guy? This is the i'd see. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>getting confused. I want to call this one the M two,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's not. It's the M one. The one is

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<v Speaker 1>the bigger and more robust one with more features. And

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<v Speaker 1>then long fast is the last message the room and

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<v Speaker 1>the last message heard. And then the last screen shows

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<v Speaker 1>the battery voltage, the time, and a few other pieces

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<v Speaker 1>of information. There that's the M two device right there.

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<v Speaker 1>It says M two on the bottom there. This is

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<v Speaker 1>the M one and it has a removable antenna. So

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<v Speaker 1>this is great because you can attach an external antenna

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<v Speaker 1>to it and get a little bit better. You can

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<v Speaker 1>put a longer antenna, moor a high gain rubber duck

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<v Speaker 1>antenna on it. You can attach an external antenna to

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<v Speaker 1>it and put a magmount on your vehicle. Today's video

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<v Speaker 1>is not officially sponsored. However, it's unofficially sponsored by my

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<v Speaker 1>Amazon store, which I have a list of mestastic devices on.

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<v Speaker 1>I put the N one node on this list from Amazon,

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<v Speaker 1>and even though it has a twenty percent off coupon

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<v Speaker 1>right now, it's still about thirty dollars higher than the

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<v Speaker 1>Lacrow website. Okay, it's seventy nine here on Amazon, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's about fifty three here well about yeah, about twenty

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<v Speaker 1>five dollars fifty three here on their website, So go

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<v Speaker 1>to their website. I'll share that in description Blow. But

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<v Speaker 1>on my Amazon store, I do have a lot of things,

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<v Speaker 1>including this antenna right here. This is the external intenda

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<v Speaker 1>that I have on my truck right now. It's a

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<v Speaker 1>magmunt antenna for nine hundred and fifteen megahertz. Laura works perfectly,

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<v Speaker 1>has an essumate connector on it, so check that out.

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<v Speaker 1>That will be in the description Blow as well. But

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<v Speaker 1>having a removable antenna like this gives you a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit more versatile options for nodes. You could hang this

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<v Speaker 1>in the truck and run an antenna outside, or you

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<v Speaker 1>could put a larger antenna on it and set it

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<v Speaker 1>on you know, like an outside table at a campsite

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<v Speaker 1>or even in your backyard something like that and get

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit better range out of it, simply because

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<v Speaker 1>it does have a removable antenna. So does anyone use

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<v Speaker 1>these as Have you guys ever seen these nodes before?

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<v Speaker 1>Is anyone using the M one or M two from

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<v Speaker 1>Ella Crow think node. I'd like to know what you

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<v Speaker 1>think about these in the description blow what kind of

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<v Speaker 1>applications do you use them for? And this little one

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<v Speaker 1>with the non removable antenna, this M two, I can't

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<v Speaker 1>imagine myself using that. I just this would be a

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<v Speaker 1>good one. To leave it home or something like that.

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<v Speaker 1>You wouldn't want to put that in a bag or

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<v Speaker 1>a pocket because I'm afraid this would get broken. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So you could use this as like a secondary node,

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<v Speaker 1>because all these nodes are meshing together, right, So you

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<v Speaker 1>could use this as a secondary node. You got a

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<v Speaker 1>node on the outside of your house. Cool, You could

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<v Speaker 1>put this one in your kitchen or in your office

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<v Speaker 1>or in your bedroom and have it just meshed out

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<v Speaker 1>there and kind of repeating signals and just turn it

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<v Speaker 1>on client mute mode and have it as part of

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<v Speaker 1>the network. And then this guy right here, you could

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<v Speaker 1>easily run in a vehicle or with a larger antenna

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<v Speaker 1>at a campsite or outside in your backyard or somewhere

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<v Speaker 1>remotely and have the range extended on it, because not

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<v Speaker 1>only does it have a longer battery life, but it

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<v Speaker 1>has an SMA connector with a removable antenna that you

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<v Speaker 1>can add something longer too, so a couple different versatility

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<v Speaker 1>options there from ellacrow Think Nodes, I'd like to know

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<v Speaker 1>what you guys think in the description blow check out

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<v Speaker 1>the links to everything we talked about today, and we'll

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<v Speaker 1>catch you next time.