Build a J-Pole Antenna for Your LoRa Meshtastic Base Station

Feature image showing a rooftop LoRa Meshtastic base station with a homemade PVC J-Pole antenna and solar panel

A More Efficient Antenna Is Needed for the Base Station To improve my Meshtastic base station’s ability to rebroadcast weak LoRa packets, I decided to replace the commercial “rubber ducky” coiled antenna with a homemade J-Pole antenna. While rubber ducky antennas are convenient for handheld devices, they are much less effective for a CLIENT_BASE node. … Read more