shortwavesurfer2009 on Nostr: Yeah, higher gain is not always better. It may seem like it, but it's not always ...
Yeah, higher gain is not always better. It may seem like it, but it's not always true. A high gain antenna in your cell phone to talk to cell phone towers would be an absolute disaster. Or a high gain in your GPS receiver would be an absolute disaster. In meshtastic, it's probably better to use a 3dbi rather than a 10dbi. Just because you can get signals from airplanes coming over sometimes, and you do not know where the signal is going to originate from.
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