FTRCRP runs a small Reticulum node. It carries our pages and our messages over LoRa radio and over the internet, and it keeps working when the fibre does not. This page says where it is, what it transmits on, and how to find it. The numbers below are refreshed every fifteen minutes from the node itself.
Where
Skiptvet, Østfold, Norway. Maidenhead locator JO59, inland, about sixty kilometres south-east of Oslo. We publish the general area so that people with a LoRa radio know whether they are in range, and nothing closer than that.
Radio
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 869.525 MHz |
| Bandwidth | 125 kHz |
| Spreading factor | SF8 |
| Coding rate | 4/5 |
| Output | 22 dBm |
| Hardware | Heltec LoRa32 V3 flashed as an RNode, outdoor-facing antenna |
The radio sits in the 869.4 to 869.65 MHz sub-band, which allows 500 mW and a ten percent duty cycle in Norway. The node keeps its own airtime well under that and shows the figure on its status page.
Addresses
| Service | Address |
|---|---|
| Page node | 15e8e28a1679f391d65531416b6f4e46 |
| Propagation node, holds messages for people who are offline | c456c70306acc39ea95fa5105b50dfb4 |
| Chat hub, rooms are keyed | 737c8f153238f2f84f503d45db055f29 |
| Write to us, LXMF | ec9ece9d85473bee0da41e8ca19a74d4 |
Any Reticulum client reaches these: NomadNet or rettui on a computer, Sideband on a phone. Over the internet the node answers on the Reticulum network through its usual transports. Over the air you need an RNode or compatible LoRa radio on the profile above, within range.
Live status
The node writes a plain-text status line every fifteen minutes: radio state, bytes in and out, airtime, channel load, noise floor and radio temperature, and, once the outdoor sensor is wired in, temperature and humidity in Skiptvet.
- Current status, plain text
- On the mesh, the same page lives at
/page/node.muon the page node, linked from its front page.
Outdoors
An outdoor temperature and humidity sensor on 433 or 868 MHz is being decoded on the same site. When it reads cleanly its values appear in the status line and here.
Why publish this
A mesh is only useful if people can find it. Publishing the frequency, the profile and the addresses is what lets a neighbour with a radio join, and lets anyone verify what we claim to run. This site is the clearnet mirror of the node, so the two should agree.