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Repeaters missing from the map

A repeater with no location set still relays traffic, but nobody can see where it is. These are the ones on air today that the analyzer and explorer can't place.

Live report

Repeaters heard in the last day

Only repeaters an observer heard in the last 24 hours are included, so everything here is on air right now. Select one to open its profile on the analyzer.

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Why a repeater's location matters

Anyone planning a new node starts by asking where the nearest repeaters are. One that isn't on the map can't be checked for line of sight in the explorer, so people end up putting hardware where coverage already exists, or skipping a site because they don't know your repeater would reach it.

A repeater with no location set adverts a position of 0,0, a spot in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa. Maps that don't filter it out will happily draw your Texas repeater there.

Fixing it

Log in to the repeater as admin from the MeshCore app and fill in its latitude and longitude in settings, or from the command line send set lat 30.27 and set lon -97.74 with your own coordinates. Then send a fresh advert so the network, and the analyzer, hear the new position.

It doesn't have to be exact. If the repeater sits at your home and you'd rather not publish the address, two decimal places puts it within three-fourths of a mile, which is plenty for coverage planning.

Don't see your repeater?

Either it has a location set, or no observer has heard it in the last day. If it's the second, the observer network may not reach your area yet.