lora pi gateway new build
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Roger M1CDQ
Oct 14, 2025, 9:05:31 AMOct 14
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From my previous and the help of others. I managed to get a lora pi gateway running. now i have 3. the latest one is 434 and 868. nearly finished building it for mast head mounting. Its powered over Ethernet from as poe switch and Gigabit PoE splitter. I have hard wired in the power instead of using the USB to save space.
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Nick McCloud
Oct 14, 2025, 6:42:09 PMOct 14
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On Tuesday, 14 October 2025 at 14:05:31 UTC+1 Roger M1CDQ wrote:
From my previous and the help of others. I managed to get a lora pi gateway running. now i have 3.
What do you do with three???!!
the latest one is 434 and 868.
Nice idea, will stick an RFM95 on one of my single RFM96 boards to cover both base.
for mast head mounting. Its powered over Ethernet from as poe switch and Gigabit PoE splitter.
Again, nice idea. Which splitter did you buy?
What antenna arrangement are you using at the top?
Roger M1CDQ
Oct 15, 2025, 12:59:23 AMOct 15
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Im using a Uctronics Gigabit poe splitter of amazon
I have found you need to connect all to the pi first then connect the cat 5 cable. then after a few seconds it powers up. if you do it the other way no does not seem to work as well. i thing the switch need to sense the current draw.
As for antennas Im using a mobile dualband vhf,uhf antenna for 433 and an 8di 868 grey pole antenna. both mounted atop of my radio mast on a cross beam.
I did try to use a cisco power inserter. but that did not work so i got a cheap poe switch of amazon
the other boards. one is planned for a remote location and the other to be fitted with a uhf beam attached to my el/az rotator. The plan if works. If a balloon is using horus on 433 and lora on 433, then horus gui can control a rotator just like satellite tracking
I have found you need to connect all to the pi first then connect the cat 5 cable. then after a few seconds it powers up. if you do it the other way no does not seem to work as well. i thing the switch need to sense the current draw.
As for antennas Im using a mobile dualband vhf,uhf antenna for 433 and an 8di 868 grey pole antenna. both mounted atop of my radio mast on a cross beam.
I did try to use a cisco power inserter. but that did not work so i got a cheap poe switch of amazon
the other boards. one is planned for a remote location and the other to be fitted with a uhf beam attached to my el/az rotator. The plan if works. If a balloon is using horus on 433 and lora on 433, then horus gui can control a rotator just like satellite tracking
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