MeshCore in Scotland/Places/Central Scotland/Stirling
MeshCore in Stirling
Where the lowlands stop. The castle rock and the Ochils see a long way in three directions, and almost nothing to the north west.
Stirling 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 Stirling
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 Stirling
The fixed radios doing the relaying, nearest first. Distances are from the centre of Stirling.
Joining from Stirling
sti has been proposed for this area but is not agreed yet, so repeaters here run sco alone.
Where another repeater would help
12 repeaters are already up around Stirling, 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 Stirling
Is there a mesh network in Stirling?
Yes. 12 repeaters and 13 nodes were heard around Stirling in the last five days, and everything heard there reaches the rest of the Scottish mesh.
How do I join the MeshCore mesh in Stirling?
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 Stirling use?
sti has been proposed for this area but is not agreed yet, so repeaters here run sco alone. sco is the scope every Scottish radio sets; the local code only adds where traffic should stay.
Where is the nearest MeshCore repeater to Stirling?
sco-Bannockburn, 3 km from the centre of Stirling. The page lists every repeater heard within 25 km, nearest first.
Nearby
The next places along the mesh.