Meshtastic

Station CmWx is a solar-powered 915 MHz LoRa node for Meshtastic, extending the local mesh into the Claremont neighborhood of Jersey City.

Site

The node is rooftop mounted, ~1.5km west of Liberty State Park, on The Hill in the Claremont area overlooking Bergen–Lafeyette, roughly 20 meters above sea level.

Grey antenna in front of the downtown Jersey City and Lower Manhattan skyline.

Hardware

The current node configuration:

The node is configured as a client, since the roof is not nearly high enough to make this a proper router. I chose to not set up this node with the licensed operator configuration so it could support encryption. For now, the node itself does not uplink to MQTT.

TODOs