Meshtastic – an inexpensive mesh network

On April 25th Scott Prior VA7LMP gave IslandHF a terrific presentation on Meshtastic.

Meshtastic is an open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices.

It’s is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source!

There is a video (no password required) and a downloadable PDF file. Check them out.

AREDN Zoom Call

Chris VE7TOP gave us a great presentation on AREDN (Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network). It’s a high speed meshed data network with a large number of applications. Check out the video (no password required) and there is a downloadable PDF file available with the slides.

Hamclock

Are you familiar with this amateur radio enthusiast propagation tool? It’s called HamClock. The creator of this app is KD7OKK. I have contacted him to see whether there is a code block which I can place in the IslandHF website. Check it out!