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Lone Vinyl Wallaby
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John

Lone Vinyl Wallaby becomes the fourth for Canberra. More to come!

Yesterday, I received my second Helium miner/hotspot – Lone Vinyl Wallaby – and have tonight deployed it in Spence as a neighbour to hotspot #3

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20/10/2021 No Comments
RAK 5.8dBi Helium antenna installed - makes an enormous difference
2021
John

Mapping more of Canberra – Internal vs External Helium antenna – an ENORMOUS difference!

If anyone was ever questioning whether it’s worth getting an external antenna, or just sticking with the standard one, here’s an experiment I did this

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17/10/2021 No Comments
antenna
John

Installing a simple concrete roof tile antenna mount for your Helium antenna

We’re not all lucky enough to be able to mount enormous antennas on our roofs. The ACT has pretty strict rules on antenna height –

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16/10/2021 No Comments
Helium Hotspots in Australia to October 2021
2021
John

Helium hotspot growth in Australia – Oct Update

A did a post like this around this time last month. It’s interesting to see the tremendous growth in just a month… As of 16

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16/10/2021 No Comments
Join the HeliumACT Facebook Group
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John

We’ve started a Facebook Group for Helium in Canberra. Instagram, too!

Hey. While there’s some excellent discussion going on in the various Discord servers, I know Discord isn’t for everyone. So we’ve set up a new

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14/10/2021 No Comments
antennae
John

More Helium mapping in Canberra with MUCH better results

The Helium mapping journey continues… I’ve written a few other posts about putting the Helium network to use by deploying a GPS-enabled, Helium-compatible LoRaWAN mapper

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12/10/2021 No Comments
Bumpy Laurel Bee - Nebra Indoor Hotspot in Spence, ACT
2021
John

Three’s a crowd! The third Helium hotspot in Canberra comes online in…Spence

I’m VERY excited to announce the arrival of a new Nebra Indoor Helium hotspot – “Bumpy Laurel Bee” – which I’ve put online in Spence

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12/10/2021 No Comments
RP-SMA, SMA and N-Type fittings and genders
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John

Connector types on common Helium equipment, their genders and differences

I get REALLY confused about the different gender fittings on Helium gear. RP-SMA in particular has thrown me for a loop on more than one

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10/10/2021 No Comments
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John

How to set up port forwarding for your Helium hotspot/miner

I wrote a fairly long post here about relayed hotspots and setting up port forwarding in an attempt to address that. Here’s a video (that’s

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05/10/2021 No Comments
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