Anyone interested in Meshtastic/Meshcore?

[Daniel Vinci]

I've got my Meshtastic node up and running. Treating hF0A8+r/Ea1PY9YfGXpObTn9cqUimLRLIzPjNDC24oo== as the NCLUG channel. 

On Tue, Jan 6, 2026, at 10:59 AM, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> I don't have a  tracking update yet, but I'm still expecting 1-2 weeks before I have gear.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 10:28 AM Phil Marsh <microcraftx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I’m just west of the railroad track near Timberline and just north of Drake, Sagewood East neighborhood in Fort Collins. I would be interested to run a Meshtastic repeater too.
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jan 6, 2026, at 2:52 AM, Daniel Vinci <me at danielvinci.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Daniel Vinci
>>> em: me at danielvinci.com
>>> mx: @xylobol:amber.tel
>>> 

Daniel Vinci
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