The Node Is Up, audio
Listen to this Signal, narrated.
There is a small radio in Skiptvet, and as of today it has a page on this site.
It is a Reticulum node. Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware, built to keep operating under adverse conditions such as extremely low bandwidth and very high latency (Reticulum Network Stack, 2026). That suits a small radio on a slow band.
Mine is a Heltec LoRa32 V3 flashed as an RNode, with an outdoor-facing antenna. It transmits on 869.525 MHz with 125 kHz of bandwidth, spreading factor 8, coding rate 4/5 and 22 dBm. All of that sits on the node page, together with four addresses: a page node, a propagation node that holds messages for people who are offline, a chat hub, and a mailbox where you can write to us over LXMF.
Why publish it? A mesh that nobody can find is a hobby with a power bill. With a LoRa radio on the same settings, within range, you can join. Further away, NomadNet on a computer or Sideband on a phone will reach the node over the internet.
I keep the location vague on purpose. Skiptvet, Østfold, inland, grid square JO59, about sixty kilometres south-east of Oslo. That tells a person with a radio whether they might be in range, and nothing closer than that.
The node keeps running when the fibre does not, and it writes its own status as a plain text line every fifteen minutes: radio state, airtime, channel load, noise floor and radio temperature. Anyone can read it and check what we claim to run.
Next on the list is an outdoor sensor for temperature and humidity, on 433 or 868 MHz. It does not decode yet. When it does, the readings will land in the same status line and on the page.
If you have a radio, come and say hello. Everything you need is on the node page.
References
Reticulum Network Stack (2026) What is Reticulum? Reticulum Network Stack 1.6.0 documentation. Available at: https://reticulum.network/manual/whatis.html (Accessed: 9 November 2026).