Terminology

Common terms and abbreviations you'll run into around the mesh.

Meshtastic

• MV — Meshview
• TR — Traceroute

MeshCore

• BW — Bandwidth
• SF — Spreading factor
• CR — Coding rate

Both

• MT — Meshtastic
• MC — MeshCore
• Tx — Transmit
• Rx — Receive
• SNR — Signal-to-noise ratio
• RSSI — Received signal strength indicator
• RF — Radio frequency
• LoRa — Long range
• LoS — Line of sight
• dB — Decibel
• dBm — Decibels referenced to 1 milliwatt
• dBi — Decibels relative to an isotropic radiator
• EIRP — Effective isotropic radiated power
• PA — Power amplifier
• LNA — Low-noise amplifier
• VNA — Vector network analyzer
• SDR — Software-defined radio
• RPI — Raspberry Pi
• HWT — HeyWhatsThat
• RA — Remote administration (remote management)