Today I made a video to promote SLÁN - Shannon Lorawan Area Network and also did some range testing

I boxed up my two LoRaWAN gateways today and did some range testing.

Using just a Heltec CubeCell Capsule (that I normally have on my window sill to capture outside temperatures) I got surprising good results considering it only has the tiniest of internal antenna.

I'm getting a range of up to 500m.

Here's a view of the signal strengths at different locations. And that's with the gateway's antenna inside the house. Soon I will remount the antenna back outside at the top of the gable end of the house which should double the signal range especially when using a sensor with an external stub antenna.



Below is the 2 minute YouTube video giving an introduction to the SLÁN network which I can share with people to generate interest in the project and to give an overview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC2MjA4rf-U



Well tomorrow I will get a few more LoRa sensors up and running again and share their graphs at:

https://shannontownwetlands.ie/environmental-sensors

Interestingly, here's a range map when I was using better placed antenna from April 2021 I scraped of the Facebook site:
https://www.facebook.com/SLANShannon





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