Bostwick Room
A room server, not a repeater. It does not extend anybody’s range; it holds the region’s shared messages so a radio that was switched off, indoors or out of range still collects them when it comes back.
Placeholder entry. The figures below are provisional and the photographs have not been taken yet.
Site and hardware
- Location
- Co-located with Bostwick RPT
- Type
- Room server, indoors, on mains
- Role
- Shared room — stores and forwards messages for members
- Hardware
- To be confirmed
- Antenna
- To be confirmed
- Height
- Indoor, well below the repeater on the same site
- Power
- Mains, on the host’s supply
- Radio profile
- 915 MHz ISM, matching the regional MeshCore profile
- Joining
- Open to anyone in range; no account, no registration
- Status
- Planned
The installation
Stand-in frames. The photographs from this site go here, in this order, once they have been taken.
The unit on its shelf, with the antenna lead
Where the antenna lead leaves the building
The room as it appears on a companion radio
What a room server is for
A mesh delivers a message only if a path exists at the moment it is sent. Most of the time somebody is out of range, indoors, or has the radio off, and that message is simply gone.
A room holds it instead. Messages posted to the room stay there, and a radio that joins later reads what it missed. It is the difference between a conversation you have to be present for and one you can catch up on, which is most of what makes a regional mesh useful day to day.
- Stores and forwards — a message survives a radio being off
- No account and no server of ours — the room runs on this node
- Open to anyone in range, on the same regional radio profile
Want a room for your own group?
A club, a farm, a search and rescue team, a neighbourhood. A room server is a small, cheap node, and we will tell you whether one would actually help.