Antelope Valley Mesh

We are a community group building out an off-grid communications network using the open-source software known as Meshtastic®. This network works like a city-wide text messaging system, allowing you to communicate without access to cell networks or internet. Users can send messages both privately and publicly with anyone on the network.

What is Meshtastic?

Meshtastic® 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!

FAQS

We all have questions! So here we will address some of the more popular questions that come up when talking about mesh based communications systems

  • Head to their website! Meshtastic has a lot of great documentation and their Getting Started page is a great place to start!

  • This isn't your traditional radio you got when you were a kid. Meshtastic uses LoRa radios on cheap power efficient hardware.

  • Simply put, a mesh network is a network where all nodes (Think of a node like your cell phone) participants in providing connection to the network. The more nodes, the better the coverage and stronger the network!

  • Nope! Meshtastic operates in the US on the 915Mhz frequency so you do not need to go get a license to us it!

  • Yes. You do need another device that connects via bluetooth or over wifi to your cell phone, tablet, or computer. We the community are the network!

  • Yup! There's an app for everything! There is both an Android app and Apple app which you use to send text based messages to folks.