Anyone interested in Meshtastic/Meshcore?

[Daniel Vinci]

I've got some Meshcore equipment I'm yet to set up. I'll get on that. 

On Tue, Jan 6, 2026, at 2:12 AM, spiros thanasoulas wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 05:21:54PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> > I've been thinking about adding a meshtastic router or two for a while
> > here, but one of my coworkers has said he's interested as well, so last
> > night I placed an order for some gear.  There's a little bit of activity
> > around Fort Collins for Meshtastic and Meshcore.  Thought maybe some of the
> > NCLUG folks might be interested in it as well.
> > 
> > I'm planning on setting up a repeater on the roof at my house near Drake
> > and Taft, and another one on a 2 story commercial building at Prospect
> > and College.  Looks like there's around the same penetration of Meshtastic
> > and Mesh Core around here.  The big issue seems to be that Mesh Core
> > requires end devices to be able to reach a repeater node, where Meshtastic
> > can route via client devices as well.  But, Core seems to be a lot more
> > reliable.  If we had a repeater up at horsetooth, Core would probably be a
> > no-brainer, but it's not clear how well it'll work with what I'm planning
> > to add.  Probably will be an experiment, but there seem to be a couple
> > Meshtastic repeaters around and a couple users.
> > 
> > If you've read this far and are wondering what I'm talking about, these are
> > both systems for off-grid communications using little devices and the
> > 915MHz band to form meshes and route traffic.  Devices for example can be
> > credit card, handheld radio, and also blackberry form factor devices.  Use
> > cases are disaster communications (if cell grid were to fail for example),
> > and they also have chatrooms for just general chatting or device-to-device
> > DM.
> i am extremely interested in meshtastic and can run a repeater
> at laporte and taft. but i am coming back sometime start of march. 
> i also have a couple of nodes :) A way forward with horsetooth
> would be to contact NCARC members and maybe go to their monthly 
> luncheons in loveland. I know they had internal talks about meshtastic
> in the past years that i've been a member.
> > 
> > Sean
> 
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> 

Daniel Vinci
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