First off, I really appreciate the work Morse Micro is doing — there’s a growing community of builders excited about creating MANETs powered by HaLow, and your chips are at the center of that momentum.
I’ve been experimenting with the Wio-WM6180, but so far I’ve only been able to configure it for US region options. On a supplier site I noticed that the newer chip/Raspberry Pi hat lists EU frequency support, which is great news.
Chipset
Morse Micro® MM6108
Frequency Range
US：902-928 MHz
EU：863-865 MHz
JP：916.5-927.5 MHz
NZ/AU：915-928 MHz
(Initial release supports US band only. More regions coming soon.)
My question is: does that support already work today with the Raspberry Pi + HaLow build of OpenWRT, or is EU region support something that will be enabled in a future release?
Thanks again for pushing this tech forward — it’s inspiring a lot of us to build.
Hi @dataslayer: the MM6108 chip supports EU spectrum, but requires a different SAW filter on the module to get certified in various regions.
The Seeed Wio-WM6180 with Quectel’s 27dbm FGH100M-H module (with Morse Micro’s MM6108 inside) only supports North American / Australian spectrum, and won’t work on EU spectrum. Quectel has a different MM6108 module SKU for Europe, see FGH100MAAMD. The AsiaRF MM610X-H06-1 RPi hats are sold in different variants depending on the target region (US, EU, JP or NZ/AU), the module on each will be slightly different.
Note that the new MM8108 chip has an integrated 26dBm PA, so you will no longer require different modules for various regions going forward with that chip. See Wi-Fi HaLow® System-on-Chips - Morse Micro for the full comparison. Note that the MM8108 is not available yet to the general public, but rumour has it that it will be very soon…
