MeshCore in Scotland/Places/Fife/Kirkcaldy
MeshCore in Kirkcaldy
Coastal Fife, looking straight across the firth at Edinburgh, with the Lomond hills behind carrying traffic on towards Perth and Dundee.
Kirkcaldy right now: nodes heard in the last 5 days within 25 km, every one of them reaching the wider Scottish mesh. Updated 12:59 UTC.
Get on the mesh in Kirkcaldy
Four steps, about an evening, roughly £25 of hardware.
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Step 1
Get a radio
Any supported LoRa board for the UK 868 MHz band. Heltec and RAK boards are what most people here run.
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Step 2
Flash the firmware
Fresh firmware from meshcore.io for your exact board. Never keep what came pre-installed.
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Step 3
Set scope and path
Pair over Bluetooth, then set the radio preset,
scoscope and 3-byte path hash. -
Step 4
Say hello
Open
#scotland, check its scope issco, and post. Someone will almost always answer.
Repeaters around Kirkcaldy
The fixed radios doing the relaying, nearest first. Distances are from the centre of Kirkcaldy.
And 12 more within 25 km.
Joining from Kirkcaldy
Repeaters here carry fif on top of sco.
Where another repeater would help
24 repeaters are already up around Kirkcaldy, so the ground worth covering now is the edge rather than the middle: the villages and glens where the town's repeaters stop being heard. The coverage map shows where that line falls.
Questions about Kirkcaldy
Is there a mesh network in Kirkcaldy?
Yes. 24 repeaters and 29 nodes were heard around Kirkcaldy in the last five days, and everything heard there reaches the rest of the Scottish mesh.
How do I join the MeshCore mesh in Kirkcaldy?
Any LoRa board for the UK 868 MHz band, fresh firmware from meshcore.io, the UK / EU Narrow radio preset and the sco scope. About an evening's work and roughly £25 of hardware.
What region code do repeaters in Kirkcaldy use?
Repeaters here carry fif on top of sco. sco is the scope every Scottish radio sets; the local code only adds where traffic should stay.
Where is the nearest MeshCore repeater to Kirkcaldy?
Red Station, 10 km from the centre of Kirkcaldy. The page lists every repeater heard within 25 km, nearest first.
Nearby
The next places along the mesh.