Anyone interested in Meshtastic/Meshcore?

[Sean Reifschneider]

FYI: I have set up a MeshCore repeater at College and Prospect, up maybe
30ft above the ground, but the ground in that area isn't particularly
high.  I can't see it from my home at Drake and Taft, which is a pity.  I
can get maybe another 10 feet of elevation there.  It's called "Prospect
and College".  Let me know if any of you can see it.

At the moment MeshCore is definitely not very usable in this area, I can
see 4 repeaters around here but only one can I reliably reach from home.
We'll definitely need some more nodes to make it useful.  If you have
access to a particularly good vantage, I can supply a solar node (no wiring
needed).

Sean

On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 5:21 PM Sean Reifschneider <jafo00 at gmail.com> 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.
>
> Sean
>
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