Last night, my #Meshtastic node showed that it received information from a node 100 miles away, and I dismissed it as just a weird artifact. But tonight, my node is showing that there are three nodes that are around 220 miles away. I do not have MQTT enabled on downlink so they are definitely over RF. But how is that even fucking possible? I live in an area where the mesh is not super well built up and there are only a few people locally that have nodes and I would expect to get nodes from a lot closer than 200 miles away or even 100 miles away considering there are two decently large cities only 70 miles away. Also, so far I have only gotten these messages at night.
Discussion
I think they call it "tunneling" VHF and UHF under the right assumption m atmospheric conditions can bounce and go longer distances depending on terrain and such. Might be an option. Does it happen at sunset or sunrise or directly between the two?
Seems like 3-4AM. A duct is very possible. I just didnt know a duct would carry a signal of that high a frequency. I have seen ducting on 2m (144mhz) often and I saw 70cm (440-460mhz) ducts once or twice. From what I understand, the higher the frequency, the less likely a duct is to form capable of carrying it.
Or someone has the wrong GPS coordinates in their mesh location and are closer. I'm not sure if that is possible. Or maybe they have directional antenna on hill top. Radio waves are pretty interesting.
I'm not totally sure about that only because there were four nodes that were of similar distance away.
