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woburn-treepeater1 🌲

Repeater0.1 mi E of Woburn Center

Community infrastructure that passes messages along the mesh; it does not write them. Numbers are a sample from the relay paths our Woburn radio heard. What is a repeater?

Messages relayed, 7 days855
Hops from our radio0
Last heardOct 17, 8:55 PM
First heardOct 17, 2:12 AM

On the map

Position sent by the repeater

Its advertised position: 42.48000, -71.15000 · open in OpenStreetMap.

Orange pin: this repeater · blue lines and dots: repeaters it links with on relay paths our radio heard · green dots: other repeaters within 10 mi.

Health

Active
Heard by us for 0 days; 24 adverts received. Last heard Oct 17, 8:55 PM (relaying a message).

Linked and nearby repeaters

  1. HashtagPLUS.com/woburn 0.1 mi W · linked on 313 relay paths
  2. Knu-Woburn 1.1 mi N
  3. Knu-Woburn MQTT 1.1 mi N
  4. Stoneham-RPT1 2.0 mi E
  5. TEMP-MNK-1 2.3 mi NW
  6. WOBURN RPT 2.8 mi W
  7. Tea-Beam 2.8 mi W
  8. K1UHV_Solar 3.0 mi E
  9. BUR-NorthEast-2 3.1 mi NW
  10. LEX-Whipple-MNK 3.1 mi SW
  11. DUDE3 RPT 3.3 mi SW
  12. BUR-MNK-Temp 3.4 mi NW

Activity, last 30 days

Packets our Woburn radio heard through it each day, oldest on the left. 29 quiet days (nothing heard through it).

Region tags it carries

  • unscoped (travels everywhere) 98%
  • #bos 1%
It carries region-scoped traffic, so it is set up for regions.

Busiest hours

Most traffic around 7 pm and 8 pm (Eastern).

Channels through it

Public 42#test 41#testing 6#ct 5#wardriving 4#ma-hc 3

Neighbouring repeaters

Repeaters just before or after it on message paths: who it hears and who hears it.

Canopy & Solar Spec

InstallationTree canopy (~40 ft AGL)
Ground elevation≈190 ft (Woodbrook Hill)
Power storage2× 18650 (25 Wh Li-ion)
Solar chargerBQ24074 + NTC (0 °C cutoff)
Path clearance+21.6 m clear to NW
Sealed PETG enclosure raised on an arborist throwline to clear surrounding tree canopy towards Burlington and Cambridge. Read the build notes ↗

Who relies on it

  1. Demarest V4 Mobile 9 messages
  2. Oakland-BOT 8 messages
  3. Acadian222 7 messages
  4. Bot Man 7 messages
  5. K2XAP/V4 6 messages
  6. Fonky Honky 336 5 messages
  7. Fairfield 🤖 5 messages
  8. 🦊Hashtagplus.com/mesh-fox 5 messages
Senders whose public messages crossed it most often, last 30 days.

Device

Device: Seeed XIAO kit verified
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Links

0.25 mi0.5 mi0.75 mi1 miwoburn-treepeater1 🌲 and our rooftop: 45 packets a day, 0.1 miwoburn-treepeater1 🌲 and HashtagPLUS.com/woburn: 44 packets a day, 0.1 miour rooftopHashtagPLUS.com/woburnwoburn-treepeater1 🌲
Repeaters next to it on message paths (thicker = busier). Dashed grey: unscoped traffic only. Full view

Messages it carried

Oct 17, 8:55 PM
Public · 9 hops · Acadian222@[Celluoid Desktop] I wonder if the #CT Channel is interfering with the public messages?
Oct 17, 8:54 PM
Public · 9 hops · Celluoid DesktopHmmm... I wonder why that is.
Oct 17, 8:53 PM
#hamradio · 14 hops · Fonky Honky 336Its cb lol
Oct 17, 8:52 PM
Public · 10 hops · Acadian222@[Ranger] Does Bristol need another repeater somewhere high like S. mountain off of Willis?
Oct 17, 8:51 PM
#ri-mesh · 5 hops · WSHS664-CMTJR-COMP1Quest tonight...
Public messages whose path crossed this repeater on the way to our radio. A repeater does not write messages; it passes them on.