Whatever the length of travel on that suspension was, it was not enough. Wild picture.

Is this in your garden or something you found out and about?

Sounds like you might get buried with this one. The one time I touched a butterfly knife I quickly cut my hand, I will leave these for the experts.

Where about is this beauty located? It looks like old man of the woods(Strobilomyces strobilaceus) to me.

Edit- Ehhhh, I think I am misseeing the texture I thought was there. I will defer to those under me. Also no veil remnants so I will put a nail in the old man coffin.

If you get a spore print that would help as well.

They look like Mica caps(Coprinellus micaceus) to me. Were they sparkly by chance?

Rhodesian FAL is on my dream list. I love those guns.

I already own some rugby shorts so I am 50% there.

I have paw paw seeds out the ass and already vernalized. If anyone is actually interested I can send you some.

I am in a similar scenario as you are living in a more rural location. I started with hand held devices that I would take in my car to see if it was worthwhile to continue exploring. I ended up finding many people around me but I could not reach them from my house. I ended up using an old TV antenna at my house to run a node up on that gave me access to my broader community. I live in the flat Midwest so went with a high DB antenna and it has worked great.

My thoughts are nix the dedicated car based module and go straight to a high location after hand held. Height is king for Meshtastic.

My last note is be aware of antennas you use as higher DB is not always the best. Higher DB means the sensitivity of the antena becomes flatter and more perpendicular to the horizon(in standard installations) where as lower DB radiates in a big bubble.

So if you are in very mountainous terrain very high DB antennas are not always best as they do not handle elevation changes great but rather blast out to the horizon which may not be useful. Also if you have a hill blocking you, your are out of luck. Think of Meshtastic as basically line of sight.

If you have any questions fire away and I can share what I know, I am not an expert by any means but I have got my hands dirty.

Confirming paw paw. I ate so many last fall I got sick for days. I love paw paw and make a ice cream out of them every year.

Nope, these guys are a choice edible. You are probably thinking of gyromitra genus.

This is a staple of Menards. When I die I hope I wake up in a Menards store front, smelling cut pine with a Sprechers in my hand.

Beautiful picture. My car setup if my handheld on my dash and a USB feeding it power if it needs to recharge. It has worked well for me

Hey I am looking for may pointers you have. We had a huge storm roll in and knocked down some huge trees on my property. I am planning on going into the woods and grabbing some oaks, lines and walnuts to replace them. Any tips on transplanting?

One addition, you do not have to break the bank on any of this. If you are tech savvy and can do basic soldering I would suggest piecing your nodes together yourself. If you are looking at the 100 dollar solar nodes you can do that for much much cheaper yourself with a bit of work.

I am late to this party but that knife looks great.

That is interesting. I have some weird gymnopilus that I does not fit cleanly into a species(I am probably missing something honestly), I will have to look into that program to finally find out. Thanks for passing that along.

I love these. The shine and feel of the lacquered bits is nice.

There is a python CLI you should look into. This gets out of my comfort zone so likely not using the right terminology but you can connect via serial and they will dump very detailed logs over that connection. I am not sure if those detailed logs are saved though, or you would need to capture live.

I have used this for troubleshooting but there is loads of information being passed over.

I have come across these plenty of times but I never tried to eat them. Have you ever given them a shot?

Are you doing the sequencing or are you sending it off for analysis?