No LoRaWAN in the near future

I planned to run a LoRaWAN gateway in a previous article:

/gemlog/2024-06-12-My_plans_with_LoRaWAN.gmi

I stopped following this plan for now and the near future. I wanted to send a Gemini page to my Gemini server but it seems to be not the right tool for this. The LoRaWAN gateway for outdoors, which I planned to buy, is also very expensive with the shipping and handling costs (around 320 EUROs).

When I did my research I found out, that it can/should only be used to send small amounts of data like sensor or GPS data. It's not meant for sending files. There are possibilities for that but it's clearly not intended for that. And I don't want to build up a complete LoRaWAN gateway completely with ChirpStack just to send file for ROOPHLOCH.

But I think I'll try to participate this time in the ROOPHLOCH challenge by sending from a special location with my Laptop and a smartphone hotspot. I hope that counts, although it's easy to do.

I don't want to completely bury my LoRaWAN plans, because it would be cool to have a gateway for the neighborhood. But for now I simply can't afford the LoRaWAN gateway I want. I have to prioritize my expenses a bit at the moment.

That's all for now. All in all - have fun!

-fab-

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