Our Colorado Mesh Network Community is a grassroots group of amateur radio operators, outdoor enthusiasts, tech builders & tinkerers, and locals creating resilient, decentralized communication using affordable LoRa hardware. No internet or cell towers needed — just people-powered nodes for staying connected or experimenting in the city or in remote spots.

How Does It Work?

ColoradoMesh - Formally DenverMesh -- is working to set up a mesh network in Colorado. User's contribute to the network using their personal Meshtastic, MeshCore, or Reticulum devices. These radios communicate on the 915 MHz frequency using the LoRa protocol. The radios mesh using the open-source Meshtastic software, or the other protocols. Users can connect to these repeaters by Bluetooth or they can use their own handheld nodes which will also act as repeaters. The messages hop from node to node, extending the reach of the network and ensuring everyone receives every message.
Please See our "Can You Explain It Like I'm 5?" page.

Network Tools

We host a variety of tools and utilities for both the MeshCore and Meshtastic networks in Colorado, including:

• MeshCore network analytics: https://analyzer.meshcore.coloradomesh.org
• Meshtastic network analytics: https://map.meshtastic.coloradomesh.org
• A MeshCore range checker: https://rangecheck.meshcore.coloradomesh.org
• MeshCore setup utilities: https://tools.meshcore.coloradomesh.org
• A dedicated MQTT observer server for MeshCore

Standards

Our community members worked to research and establish mesh standards, including radio settings, region definitions and naming conventions: https://github.com/Colorado-Mesh/docs/tree/master/MeshCore/standards

GitHub

We maintain a community GitHub Organization, containing various repos for code that runs our various utilities, our community documentation, and Mesh-Client development.

How I can join the group?

We would love to have you come join us! Please read this page for instructions.

We are also in the process of creating regional portals for Colorado. Bear with us as this site is under construction, however, if you are interesed in Onboarding your region with Meshcore, or becoming a Regional Representive / Administrator, please don't hesitate to join our Discord or get into contact!

For more information about ColoradoMesh, please visit our About page.