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  • Gristle Crüe Weekly Call, 4/12/22

    Gristle Crüe Weekly Call, 4/12/22

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    We had planned to do anoth­er cryptocurrency/tax call this week with Mat Soren­son but pushed a week due to sched­ul­ing con­flicts. That did­n’t stop us from scratch­ing a few tax itch­es, but we spent more time on the pri­va­cy issues with deploy­ing sensors.  0:00:00 — IntroNo Matt this week, tax­es next week.You have an off…

  • Helium Analytics: Data, Truth, and the Results

    Helium Analytics: Data, Truth, and the Results

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    Heli­um is a com­plex sys­tem. If you don’t under­stand it, that com­plex­i­ty can be REALLY frustrating.  There are radio fre­quen­cy con­cepts, Hotspot den­si­ty rules, dif­fer­ent anten­nas, cables, split­ters, and a con­stant­ly chang­ing Net­work. Those all com­bine to make an extra­or­di­nar­i­ly com­plex sys­tem. In any com­plex sys­tem, the big oppor­tu­ni­ty is to look for big pat­terns…

  • Gristle Crüe Weekly Call 3–15-22

    Gristle Crüe Weekly Call 3–15-22

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    We cov­er using anten­nas in trees, get­ting grants from DeWi to build Heli­um usage, using the new Heli­um Wal­let, and more. Join us next time! 0:00:00 — Anten­nas in TreesUsing a high­er dBi (6–9) to punch through the trees 0:03:27 — How do you build out a new area?Use Hotspot­ty to check local ele­va­tion changes, cross­check that…

  • Gristle Crüe Weekly Call, 3–9‑22

    Gristle Crüe Weekly Call, 3–9‑22

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    Atten­dance is grow­ing, good to see new and vet­er­an faces! Great dis­cus­sion and Q&A about all things Heli­um, includ­ing which plat­forms to use for what, a new app option with dis­count code for G‑Crüe mem­bers, and a new Ana­lyt­ics option. Here we go! 00:00 — Intro 03:02 — Hotspotty Get Region­al Aware­nessSet­ting Commissions 8:18 — Heli­um­Track­er —…

  • The Essential Tools You Need For Excellent Helium Deployments

    The Essential Tools You Need For Excellent Helium Deployments

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    What tools will you need to install Heli­um Hotspots? After putting up Hotspots on hous­es, build­ings, moun­tains, and poles, and spend­ing more mon­ey than I’d like to admit on all kinds of tools, I thought I’d put togeth­er a list for you to find all of ’em in one place. No mat­ter how basic or…

  • Gristle Crüe Weekly Call 3–2‑22

    Gristle Crüe Weekly Call 3–2‑22

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    Mar­vel (my dog) tries to steal the show with his squeaky toy. Russ drops some pen­ny-saver tips and resources, BFGNeil walks us through updates and some pret­ty cool impli­ca­tions of Light Hotspots. Still wran­gling all this in, appre­ci­ate all the sug­ges­tions for improve­ment, thank you for help­ing make this awesome! Time hacks 3:22 intro 4:35…

  • Gristle Crüe Only — Launching Soon

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  • Is Your Helium Radio Signal Good Enough?

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    How do you make sure a radio sig­nal is with­in accept­able lim­its for Heli­um? Short ver­sion: Assert your anten­na gain (includ­ing your cable loss) and loca­tion accu­rate­ly and you don’t need to do any­thing else. Wait, you want more? Dawg, why did­n’t you say so? Let’s dive in! First, let’s start with why we need an “accept­able”…

  • How Do You Cheat On The Helium Network?

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    This is a gen­er­al expla­na­tion of how gamers are steal­ing HNT on the net­work. This is not a “how to”. Most of us putting up Heli­um Hotspots have no idea how the sys­tem works. It can feel frus­trat­ing to be cheat­ed and not under­stand it. Let’s go through a few of the more com­mon meth­ods.…

  • Does Your Helium Hotspot Need A Security Camera?

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    “Do you wor­ry about your off grid hotspot get­ting stolen?”  I get that ques­tion a lot.  My short answer is “No”.  In gen­er­al, I fol­low what I con­sid­er a few secu­ri­ty best practices: Make it hard to find. Make it hard to get to. Don’t leave your valu­ables unprotected. In the world of Heli­um off grids, how­ev­er,…