GoTenna Mesh

[JASII]

Has anybody here used the GoTenna Mesh? If I recall correctly, the Mesh is UHF vs, the original GoTenna, which is VHF MURS frequencies. A pair of the black GoTenna Mesh units is $100.00, on sale this weekend. Are they worth that?

https://www.gotenna.com/

 

[lmrtek]

They are very low power short range radios that rely on having other units nearby to mesh with so their range is completely at the mercy
of the existence of other similar units being used near you.

For $20 dollars, you can buy a pair of FRS radios that can easily go further and they don't rely on the a mesh network that likely won't exist when you need it.

I'd far rather have the later

 

[mmckenna]

Has anybody here used the GoTenna Mesh? If I recall correctly, the Mesh is UHF vs, the original GoTenna, which is VHF MURS frequencies. A pair of the black GoTenna Mesh units is $100.00, on sale this weekend. Are they worth that?

https://www.gotenna.com/

I don't know, yet.
Someone at work purchased a couple and we're going to try stringing a few up at my tower sites to see what we can make them do. Not expecting much, but it'll be a fun experiment.

 

[JASII]

I bought a pair of these a couple of days ago from the REI near me. I charged them up and tried them yesterday. They do work, BUT the range is indeed very short. I live in a pretty typical suburban area of the Minneapolis Saint Paul area in Minnesota. I may have gotten half a mile in places with houses nearby and may be a mile across a flat hay field/pasture area.

 

[khaytsus]

I bought a pair of these a couple of days ago from the REI near me. I charged them up and tried them yesterday. They do work, BUT the range is indeed very short. I live in a pretty typical suburban area of the Minneapolis Saint Paul area in Minnesota. I may have gotten half a mile in places with houses nearby and may be a mile across a flat hay field/pasture area.

I hope you promptly returned them. The mesh part is just buzzwords; these are NEVER going to have enough people using them to actually depend on them as a mesh. And they do have some specific use cases where they might be useful, like a shopping mall or sporting event where cell service is spotty because of density, or long distance open air terrain like skiing etc. But anything other than that they'll drop off after under half a mile in any normal terrain.