Holy smokes, I think it might actually be the antenna's tx/rx plane. I'm outside mixing rice hulls into my soil and I held my little heltec v3 at the ideal angle and did a traceroute, just to see what it would do, and it immediately responded.

If that's the case, maybe I want another node locally with a more forgiving antenna that will relay to the roof? That just seems kinda expensive in terms of the number of hops. One from my helrec to the jump point, two to the roof, three from the roof to wherever. Even with the hop count jacked up to 7, that extra hop is a high price to pay, IMHO.

Maybe this wouldn't be as big of a deal with #reticulum? I'm not sure how many hops they'll do by default nor what their maximum is.

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