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Will rel 1.1 dev board work in US? #185

Closed ehogeweg closed 3 years ago

ehogeweg commented 3 years ago

Hi,

Is there anything else, besides setting ACTIVE_REGION to LORAMAC_REGION_US915 I need to do to make the v1.1 GNSE work here in the US?

How is the antenna matching adjusted for US freq. range? It may be in the docs but I couldn't find it.

Regards,

Erwin

elsalahy commented 3 years ago

@ehogeweg Thanks for your question.

Indeed Adjusting ACTIVE_REGION to LORAMAC_REGION_US915 will allow the device to function in the US.

@azerimaker can provide more information on the antenna matching and the node support for 868 and 915 frequencies.

azerimaker commented 3 years ago

@ehogeweg thank you for your question. Default matching network is actually better suited for ~915MHz range, so it will certainly work in the US. I did a basic antenna return loss analysis and you can read more about our findings here ➡️ https://github.com/TheThingsIndustries/generic-node-se/issues/89#issuecomment-833003749