I’ve been testing HaLow on really rough, forested, no mobile signal, no power terrain in Spain and have a working POC (400m in bad ■■■ bush) . Actually it’s a mix of 2.4Ghz solar powered routers/extenders (Starlink was too heavy on power) and HaLow. I’ve tested using ALFA R(EU), AsiaRF AP & UM and even Anjielo 1km Extender (which was really bad) but I cannot get a HaLowlink 2 because I’m not an OEM/EMS. Any ideas when a Joe Public can buy one in the EU? I see they are for sale but not for the likes of me.
Thanks for this. I’ll keep the address for the future. I’ve moved onto how to power these devices in the wilds and it’s not easy keeping the weight down, minimising the fire risk and providing redundancy should the sun not shine. I think I have a lightweight (4kgs or so), fireproof solution with 4 days redundancy but I’ve yet to test it out. I’ve got my 400m HaLow POC in dense, sloping forest using either the ALFA R units or the AsiaRF kit. I’m going with ALFA due to (price + power costs) vs distance (against what I could achieve with 2.4Ghz solar powered repeaters). Next step is ESP32 (ESP-NOW lib) sensors on point duty. My showstopper is the EU regs regarding video, as I want to send back NDVI data and see 2 or 3 second standard def live streams (30kbps) as well (hence HaLow and not LoRa) and I’m trying to sort that as I type. Between ETSI and the EU I’ll probably end up screaming.
