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What does that mean? You can draw a 10 km circle around your potential placement and be pretty sure that unless you’ve got something in the way (mountains, hills, buildings, etc), you’ll hit the hotspots within your circle (unless you’re in a Canyons & Crags situation, more on that later.) Here’s a chart (from on Discord) showing the distances at which hotspots are witnessing. Typically, the “belt” around your hotspot (assuming clear LoS in all directions) goes from 300m (min distance to witness) to 8-10km, which is within the range of the stock antenna and therefore every hotspot. The minimum you want witnessing your beacon for maxing out your earnings is 4, but why would you try and maximize with a minimum? Less than 25 and you’re leaving earnings on the table. Any more than 25 and you’re wasting effort. The Well Fit Belt strategy is to find an area where your hotspot can witness 25 other hotspots within the range of your antenna. This brings us to the Well Fit Belt strategy.
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Here’s where the dance really begins, as the more locations you can “Prove” with, the generally better your earnings will be, up to a limit. Your hotspot can (and should, if you want to earn!) overlap coverage with other hotspots, thus making your coverage Proveable through a distance and bearing reading of the radio waves being transmitted and received. Talk about leaving money on the table! You could move one of those to another location 300 meters away and double your earnings on BOTH hotspots, meeting at least 2 of the WUPU requirements (Unique and Proveable. Those two hotspots are in the same Res 8 hex, providing duplicate coverage, with both earnings getting transmit reward clipped at a. Let’s zoom in on that placement that appeared to be Unique: This is an example of what happens when you order two hotspots to double your earnings, then just plonk your second hotspot down at Grandma Sallie’s house who lives right next door. It might be Lone Wolf-ing it, but at least it’s providing Unique coverage. Behold the Great Taffy Boa in Puerto Rico, with what appears at first glance a Unique placement in the middle of the west half of the island. Here’s a great example of doing a terrible job at Unique placement. It’s just that your coverage should not duplicate, or even come close to duplicating, another hotspots coverage. This can be a confusing thing, as it doesn’t mean that your hotspot needs to provide totally unique coverage.
HELIUM PLACE HOW TO
I use Helium.Vision for their RF sims as well as the multiple other data sources you can pull in, full video on how to use that tool here.
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Oh, and ALWAYS pull an RF sim on any proposed placement. Yep, despite seeming like a potentially great Wide placement option for an Edge deployment, you’ve got to look at the total picture, and topography is a big deal. Being buried in a valley will kill your coverage. You know how many hotspots that placement will connect with? Zero. Here’s what the RF simulation looks like in Helium.Vision: What’s the kicker? In Explorer, this looks like it might be at the foot of that mountain range to the east, and that those mountains might even help focus your coverage to the north and west, potentially reaching all the way into the L.A. Here’s an example of a client showing me what they thought might be a great Edge strategy (defined in the TTS section at the bottom) for Wide coverage. Common mistakes when assessing a hotspot for whether or not it has Wide coverage are to look just at the pretty green dots on Explorer and not see topographical restrictions. The more coverage you have, the more options you’ll have for the Well Fit Belt strategy we’ll go into later. We’ll go through examples of each one.įirst, let’s do Wide.
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For a hotspot to earn maximum HNT rewards it has to meet all of those. WUPU stands for Wide, Unique, Proveable, and Useful coverage.