Left a mesh radio running unmaintained for one week

I took the mesh radio which I built inside a tupperware and left it mounted, unmonitored, for one week in Los Angeles. I did not leave the tupperware on my balcony. My own apartment is in a very "surrounded" location, and I don't think I can see anything from my balcony besides other units in my complex. LoRA radio waves are highly line-of-sight dependent, and are blocked by many buildings, so I didn't think leaving the radio in my home would be a good test. So I left it somewhere else for a week (with permission). In the week it ran unmonitored, it collected 209 nodes in its node database. This is a ton! During the first week I had a mesh radio, I drove it all over town, left it running while I drove down the freeway multiple times, and crossed 300 nodes. I thought that this number had been grossly inflated by my mobility and that leaving a node in one spot would get me a lot fewer. So hitting 200 on a node that doesn't move is more than I expected. The node is functioning as a…