Longmont Mesh

Longmont Mesh is a community group working to build a Meshtastic mesh network of solar-powered meshtastic radios in Longmont, Colorado, and surrouding areas. This network acts like a free city-wide text messaging system, allowing people to communicate publicly or privately with anyone on the network. All of this happens without any external infrastructure - no power, no cell phone towers, no internet.

Longmont Mesh nodes use the default LONG-FAST settings and interoperates with Denver Mesh. This is achieved through Denver Mesh's strategic positioning of solar-power repeaters visible from Longmont. For details on how to build your own nodes, and more information in general, please visit Denver Mesh. You can also find a number of ready-made setups on Etsy. We recommend devices that use RAK wireless chips as these can be updated over bluetooth and generally have a longer operating life.

If you are located near Douglas & Elbert counties, and are an amateur radio operator, you will find their LoRa APRS site interesting.

If you have any questions about the Longmont effort, please email Joey Stanford at nv0n@rmham.org.