Hi Stan,

We have a pretty good sized Meshtastic network here in TV. There are at least 50 nodes. Meshtastic is kind of a strange beast. It is low data rate, low power, and long range.

I facilitate a club called Hands-On Tech (HoT) that most of the other Meshtastic users attend. You can find a Meshtastic link at our club page: www.handsontech.org. If you browse the past presentations under the Small Computer part of our club, you'll find a couple of club presentations on Meshtastic that will help you get oriented

Regarding equipment, most of our HoT members start with the Heltec LoRa32: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LV653X83 (There are many vendors of this on Amazon. This is just one example). The Heltec V3 is a good device to start with.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Yang Shen
W9ETC
[email protected]

On 11/4/2025 3:37 PM, [email protected] wrote:

From: 
Stan Musick <[email protected]>
Date: 
11/4/2025, 1:05 PM
To: 
TVARC <[email protected]>
Hello,
I was just curious, if we have any members that have dabbled in Meshtastic?
This past weekend I was looking at the available equipment and wand to get some feedback.
   Tnx,
   Stan, W5PDQ