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Welcome to the disaster.radio wiki!

This is the wiki for all things disaster radio. All detailed information and research regarding the project should be stored here. For a general introduction to the project see our website, https://disaster.radio.

If you would like to contribute to the development of disaster.radio, see our project board.

Contents

• Antennas and impedance matching: Learning resources and VNA comparison
• Archived Goals: a list of past projects
• Devices & Hardware: Table of supported development boards
• Layered Model: Description of the disaster radio networking stack.
• LoRa: Info on the LoRa modulation scheme
• Power: Power consumption, solar power, batteries, etc.
• Protocol: Details the LoRaLayer2 routing protocol used in disaster.radio communication
• Use Cases: Real-life examples of communities that could benefit from this project, whose particular needs and environments should principally shape future development.

Existing work

There are a number of projects similar to disaster radio that are being developed by folks around the world. Below are FOSS-oreinted projects that solve similar problems to disaster.radio. Credit to Nico Pace for originally compiling this list.

• https://www.meshtastic.org/
• https://locha.io/
• https://www.project-owl.com/
• https://github.com/sparrow-platform/duck-sparrow-link
• https://github.com/nootropicdesign/lora-mesh
• https://www.lantern.works