{
 "id": "measured-lora-airtime-tracks-the-standard-formula-within",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "A one-second-resolution airtime counter, not the formula, produced an apparent excess above spreading factor 8",
 "symptom": "A time-on-air calculation that matches measurement closely at fast settings drifts badly at slow ones, in the direction of the radio using more airtime than predicted, with no obvious error in the arithmetic.",
 "hw": [
  "heltec-v4",
  "ht-n5262",
  "sx1262",
  "sx1261",
  "lora"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "meshcore"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Decide whether the time-on-air formula can be trusted to predict channel occupancy on a real mesh",
 "date": "2026-08-20",
 "status": "superseded",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
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  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check",
  "unverified"
 ],
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}