# UK _Regional · started by MeshiAgatte on Tue, Jun 2, 2026 2:16 AM_ --- ## Original post **MeshiAgatte** · Tue, Jun 2, 2026 2:16 AM I see that there are ~3 Lora nodes in Great Britain as of writing. I've ordered radio hardware and am interested in joining their ranks; was wondering if they would be able to introduce themselves here? --- ## Reply 1 **welo** · Tue, Jun 2, 2026 9:32 AM https://rmap.world/v3/ has quite a few more nodes from way back and at least one or two are probably still running, just on old software that hasn't been updated. So you are in slightly better company than you think. --- ## Reply 2 **Anonymous** · Sat, Jun 6, 2026 8:38 AM I'm from Scotland and have two RNodes already running, although I haven't marked them on RMAP. So far I haven't seen anyone over LoRa. Would like to hear from other UK users. --- ## Reply 3 **Anonymous** · Tue, Jun 9, 2026 1:28 AM They all seem to be using different frequencies and SFs, so how do they ever hope to mesh together? --- ## Reply 4 **aetherlab** · Tue, Jun 9, 2026 9:35 AM Well, this is a major issue for LoRa, isn't it? The settings differ on location and environment. This is why we need location based settings grouping, that are well propagated and shared locally, so devices can actually talk to each other. This is why, for example, I have set the Sofia network to specific setting and have shared this setting on all the aethernode repeater/gateway nodes. It's a setting, that works best in here for distance and street level penetration. So not only shared settings will guarantee people do get in touch directly and mesh, but also they get access to the local services rns.sofia provides, such as powerful repeater nodes in high places, having 24 hour power backup and good internet connection, transport, propagation node, high-speed interface to the world via TCP gateway, echo-bot, and soon - weather bot, that uses the local sensor network, we deploy with aethernodes. No one can expect people to get together and mesh without any primary, community forming guidance. Of course all can change later, but than, when people already have each other meshed, knowing about each other, in a living, breathing community - this is easy, as propagating any changes will be almost instant. I am sure multiple networks will also pop-up, but the primaries, the early adopter networks - those bare the burden of being there for everyone and kinda giving the first tones and notes to the symphony Reticulum is. They will provide services, knowledge and a way in for all, that seek communication freedom, and also teach them what it is to share at least your battery life (and provide transport for others), at most your home, resources, hard earned money, time, knowledge (by building and deploying nodes, services, networks, repeaters, servers, power backups, providing internet, parts, designing PCB's, teaching, preaching...) and capacity to believe in it all, even when it looks dire. And don't give up. This forum is a great example of this! And I am grateful to Zenith for it! --- ## Reply 5 **Anonymous** · Tue, Jun 9, 2026 3:44 PM @aetherlab I'm really interested in using weather sensors and Reticulum, has this been implemented yet? --- ## Reply 6 **aetherlab** · Tue, Jun 9, 2026 4:15 PM Yes, but we don't use Reticulum as the information carrier. This will load the network needlessly, as we measure every 15 seconds on both sensors. The aethernode has sensors and Nick has developed the sensor exporter and the env-map we use. All code is shared on our git. https://git.aetherlab.org/explore/repos The sensors are shown here in this thread - https://rns.recipes/forum/showcase/aethernode-and-aethermobi-building-blocks-for-urban-deployments I have them connected to one of the OrangePi Zero LTE's I2C ports (TWI0), both in parallel. ---