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#3494951 24-May-2026 15:49

richms:

When I last looked there was something happening in meshtastic to start to do routing of stuff but I lost interest as there was noone within reliable radio range of home.

Looking at your advert path, your in an excellent spot for coverage. around there we have a ton of solid high sites maintained by a few community members.

a home repeater works great for infill and indoor coverage.

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#3494985 25-May-2026 06:31

scottjpalmer: Are any of the Wellington or Marlborough MeshCore folk here?

I have a few repeaters on the way 😁, would be nice to fill out the network here in Wellington.

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#3495017 25-May-2026 10:07

Huge effort by the Naki folk over the weekend unfortunately requiring a helicopter visit as part of it.

However, there is now a reasonably stable link connecting back up Waikato to New Plymouth. This also means that the link down to levin is also back in action so we are getting very close to linking up wellington too!

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#3495023 25-May-2026 10:31

Hey that's awesome! I wonder if anyone here has any experience with getting permission to put repeaters on council/public land or what the general consensus is on that 🤔.

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#3495038 25-May-2026 11:01

haydenw:

Hey that's awesome! I wonder if anyone here has any experience with getting permission to put repeaters on council/public land or what the general consensus is on that 🤔.

There are a few, i think bay of plenty may be the largest area of landowner deployments a bit of detail on those ones here MESHCORE locations : Bay of Plenty | BlowonthePie - For New Zealand Scanner Codes and more

There are a few grey deployments, but we tend to try to avoid these, the community is pretty mature about deploying in places where there is permission and where there isnt it's always something that does not stick out like a sore thumb.

meshed.kiwi has a few resources such as a form for deployment, rare that this is used but handy should it be required for a commercial site.

in general it's a great resource.

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the one place that is heavily avoided is DOC land, that tends to be very strict on process to gain rights to deploy anything on their land thats both costly and a nightmare to go through.

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#3495048 25-May-2026 12:16

Thanks for those references and I agree, not too keen on installing anything without the permissions. Cheers

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