<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div>I've got some Meshcore equipment I'm yet to set up. I'll get on that. </div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, Jan 6, 2026, at 2:12 AM, spiros thanasoulas wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 05:21:54PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:</div><div>> I've been thinking about adding a meshtastic router or two for a while</div><div>> here, but one of my coworkers has said he's interested as well, so last</div><div>> night I placed an order for some gear. There's a little bit of activity</div><div>> around Fort Collins for Meshtastic and Meshcore. Thought maybe some of the</div><div>> NCLUG folks might be interested in it as well.</div><div>> </div><div>> I'm planning on setting up a repeater on the roof at my house near Drake</div><div>> and Taft, and another one on a 2 story commercial building at Prospect</div><div>> and College. Looks like there's around the same penetration of Meshtastic</div><div>> and Mesh Core around here. The big issue seems to be that Mesh Core</div><div>> requires end devices to be able to reach a repeater node, where Meshtastic</div><div>> can route via client devices as well. But, Core seems to be a lot more</div><div>> reliable. If we had a repeater up at horsetooth, Core would probably be a</div><div>> no-brainer, but it's not clear how well it'll work with what I'm planning</div><div>> to add. Probably will be an experiment, but there seem to be a couple</div><div>> Meshtastic repeaters around and a couple users.</div><div>> </div><div>> If you've read this far and are wondering what I'm talking about, these are</div><div>> both systems for off-grid communications using little devices and the</div><div>> 915MHz band to form meshes and route traffic. Devices for example can be</div><div>> credit card, handheld radio, and also blackberry form factor devices. Use</div><div>> cases are disaster communications (if cell grid were to fail for example),</div><div>> and they also have chatrooms for just general chatting or device-to-device</div><div>> DM.</div><div>i am extremely interested in meshtastic and can run a repeater</div><div>at laporte and taft. but i am coming back sometime start of march. </div><div>i also have a couple of nodes :) A way forward with horsetooth</div><div>would be to contact NCARC members and maybe go to their monthly </div><div>luncheons in loveland. I know they had internal talks about meshtastic</div><div>in the past years that i've been a member.</div><div>> </div><div>> Sean</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div id="sig151485415"><div class="signature">Daniel Vinci</div><div class="signature">em: <a href="mailto:me@danielvinci.com">me@danielvinci.com</a></div><div class="signature">mx: @xylobol:amber.tel</div></div><div><br></div></body></html>