I ordered these two little ESP32 LoRa boards to try out #meshtastic. They were super easy to set up and they found each other quickly and formed a mesh. I can send messages between them with my phones in airplane mode :) unfortunately they don't detect any other nodes in my city. I need to post on the meshtastic forums to see if anyone near me has a node.

Fortunately I am heading to DWeb camp in a couple weeks and have already heard talk of setting up a meshtastic mesh there. After that I'm going to Denver which also has a mesh I hear.

I think I could also flash #tinyssb on these? They are Heltec v3 boards. I see that tinySSB supports Heltec v1.2 so how hard could v3 support be?

Can maybe sett if any #meshtastic nodes nearby are using MQTT uplink to report to the maps - https://meshtastic.liamcottle.net/# - since we added one very high node in Cape Town, it has been connecting up a good 20+ or so other nodes across the city. Problem is very flat ground makes it struggle a bit.