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  • Gristle Crüe Community Call — Sensors, Antenna Analysis, and some BIG ideas!

    Gristle Crüe Community Call — Sensors, Antenna Analysis, and some BIG ideas!

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    Local EE & exper­i­men­tal sci­en­tist Dirk Beer came on the Crüe call to talk about some of the sen­sor work he’s done and a very cool lit­tle anten­na analy­sis tool he built. Jame­son Buffmire filled in the sec­ond half with some real­ly inter­est­ing ideas on where Heli­um might go as well as the chal­lenges &…

  • Testing Your Helium Antenna & Placement With A GLAMOS

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    Do you have the best anten­na for your loca­tion? What kind of cov­er­age is your Heli­um Hotspot pro­vid­ing? Is the loca­tion you’ve iden­ti­fied as good on Helium.Vision actu­al­ly that good? The way to answer these ques­tions defin­i­tive­ly is to test your set­up. No amount of sim­u­la­tion, pre­dic­tion, or just think­ing (or even hop­ing) will replace the…

  • What Should You Look For In A Helium Antenna?

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    “Will this anten­na work?” I get that ques­tion a lot, usu­al­ly about some anten­na that was dis­cov­ered after hours of search­ing and sift­ing through Google results. Anten­nas are one of the most con­fus­ing parts of Heli­um, most­ly because RF is fair­ly com­pli­cat­ed and the aver­age hotspot own­er has as much expe­ri­ence with anten­na design and…

  • How To Read An Antenna Chart

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    Heli­um is a gate­way into the world of RF, or radio fre­quen­cy. While the eas­i­est thing to do when you get your hotspot is just plug it in and set it in a win­dow, most of the time you’ll earn far more if you opti­mize a bit. Most of those opti­miza­tions are focused on improv­ing…

  • What’s The Best Antenna For Your Helium Hotspot?

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    Here is a step by step method for under­stand­ing how to choose the best anten­na for your hotspot place­ment. Each place­ment demands a well matched anten­na in order to pro­vide val­ue to the Heli­um Net­work and con­se­quent­ly earn the most HNT pos­si­ble for that loca­tion. Do NOT, by the way, try to get the giant…

  • Wingbits Optimization: Graphs1090 Plus

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    Ok, so ya caught the Wing­bits bug and are will­ing to play the game just to see how good you can get? It’s fun to mess around with the Tar1090 tool (which I’ve cov­ered in a pre­vi­ous post) and see the pret­ty pic­tures, but…what about them numbers? Pret­ty clear­ly here we’re see­ing that Set­up 2…

  • Ready To Learn?

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    At the inter­sec­tion of blockchain tech­nolo­gies and the real world is a set of fas­ci­nat­ing opportunities. The projects at this inter­sec­tion are “DePIN” projects.  DePIN stands for Decen­tral­ized Phys­i­cal Infra­struc­ture Networks.  These net­works use tokens from a blockchain to reward par­tic­i­pants for pro­vid­ing some kind of data stream or service.  The first and largest project…

  • Wingbits For The Advanced User: Tar1090

    Wingbits For The Advanced User: Tar1090

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    I’ve writ­ten about the basics of Wing­bits in a recent post; if you haven’t read that yet or you’re new to the project, take about 7 min­utes and read through it; it’ll make the rest of this much eas­i­er to understand.  This is the first in a few of the “Advanced User Series” posts on…

  • A Rough Guide to Wingbits

    A Rough Guide to Wingbits

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    I’ve been watch­ing Wing­bits for a while now. They’re a new DePIN reward­ing you for track­ing com­mer­cial and pri­vate planes, and some parts of the project remind me of the ear­ly days of Heli­um, back when I wrote the orig­i­nal Rough Guide for Heli­um. Wing­bits is a project that allows you to choose your hard­ware…

  • How To Use The Helium Bridge

    How To Use The Helium Bridge

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    So you’ve read the piece on the Heli­um Bridge and you want to use one to bring your favorite non-LoRaWAN sen­sor data onto the Heli­um Net­work? Rad! Let’s start off with the cur­rent lim­i­ta­tions, just so you don’t get all hot and both­ered then real­ize what you wan’t ain’t doable yet. Right now, it works “out…