MeshCore Recommendations for BWI / Central Maryland

MeshCore is an open-source LoRa radio firmware project that lets small and inexpensive radios communicate text messages over long distances through relays. Here are the bare minimum recommendations for the BWI / Central Maryland region:

Repeater Settings

Preset	USA/Canada (Recommended)
Name	Your preference
Location	Latitude and longitude
Admin password	Set one

After the repeater is on the air, connect from a companion and run:

set timezone America/New_York
set path.hash.mode 1
reboot

Reconnect after the reboot, then:

clock sync
get path.hash.mode
advert

get path.hash.mode should return 1.

Regions

The local regions include: us, us-md, us-va, us-mva, bwi, iad.

My repeaters relay flood messages that are unscoped (*), or flood messages scoped to these local regions. As a repeater owner, you are free to set your scopes any way you wish. This is currently my default.

Channels can be scoped to these regions so local traffic is easier to see.