Gristle Crüe Weekly Call 3–15-22

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 Trees
Using 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 with Heli­umVi­sion.
Use Heli­umVi­sion to look for oth­er pat­terns like the one you’re think­ing of.
Use an absolute min­i­mum of 5 Hotspots

0:08:44 — Light Hotspots Announce­ment
Mid-April start Light Hotspots
Man­u­fac­tures have to have their own app by end of March
Man­u­fac­ture app will talk to the Heli­um wal­let app using deep links.
If you plan on doing an off-grid you may want to hold off for light hotspots

0:11:26 — Heli­um Wal­let App Sneak Pre­view
Pret­ty basic, you’re see­ing just Heli­um Tokens and Data Cred­its
24 words vs 12 words

0:14:24 — GK’s Dewi Grant
Dewi is a foun­da­tion for help­ing pro­mote the Heli­um Net­work
AJH landown­er has a prob­lem with respass­ing.
Solu­tion: Dual beam radar peo­ple counter
https://github.com/dewi-alliance/grants/issues/39
The DeWi Grant Team will help you through Dis­cord or Email if you apply.

Q/A — What kind of price range is Dewi offer­ing ?
https://github.com/dewi-alliance/grants/issues
Shows a List of Dewi Grants
Adding Pic­tures helps make it feel real
Dewi gives you HNT for the project and you have to con­vert it to Dol­lars
Q/A — Is there a list of sen­sors?
https://docs.helium.com/use-the-network/devices/ready-to-use/

0:28:49 — Elu­mi­cate
https://www.elumicate.com/
Traf­fic cap­ture devices

0:30:21 — Upcom­ing Guest
@Densone (Stake­Joy)
Dave Akers (HeliumAnalytics.io)
Aus­tralia (Fre­quen­cy issues)
PirateDAO Jere­my Rollinson
Bad Cryp­to Pod­cast
David (RF Shop AU)
Oliv­er Switzer (Router Offgrid)

0:34:52 — Russ Q/A — Has any­one looked into Geod­net?
https://geodnet.com/
Earth and Space Weath­er Crypto

0:36:47 — Back­track Ques­tion About Dewi Grant — Is the landown­er pay­ing any­thing?
On this project, no. I’m run­ning this basi­cal­ly just a tem­plate for oth­er people.

0:38:20 — Mario — Q/A — Anten­na is 8dbi the best ?
8dbi does­n’t over­shoot
PoCv10 vs PoCv11 — high­er gain anten­nas used to car­ry a some­times sig­nif­i­cant penal­ty
At this point, anten­nas don’t real­ly mat­ter unless you need to punch through something

0:44:08 — Bob­cat 500 (5g)
Just announced 5G
GK will be test­ing one with a small cell

0:46:27 — Pollen Mobile
https://www.pollenmobile.io/
Like Heli­um but 5G only
Pri­vate 5G net­work; their intent isn’t be used by cell phones, but by autonomous vehicles.

0:48:15 — Q/A Mario — Off-grid data plan
Data plan, relayed, light hotspots ?
Exper­i­ment
If you have a killer spot, go for it. Oth­er­wise, pro­l­ly hold off until Light Hotspots are here.

0:50:57 — Q/A Bronson/Linaerith — How do you cal­cu­late ROI ?
Using Heli­umVi­sion, cal­cu­late 24hr rewards
Dou­ble check local max with Hotspotty

0:57:00 — Q/A Kevin — Any­one using DVPN ?
No. But GK has some Deep­er devices if any­one wants to test

0:58:17 — Q/A Russ — Anten­na Polar­ized Tuned are those impor­tant ?
Either ver­ti­cal or mul­ti-polar­ized
You can buy hor­i­zon­tal­ly-polar­ized, but it won’t talk to ver­ti­cal­ly polar­ized
Almost every anten­na sold for Heli­um will be ver­ti­cal­ly polarized.