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MeshCore MeshCore is starting to gain popularity in the Pioneer Valley. There are a couple well placed repeaters operaing in the area placed by a local user (thanks Paul!) and we’re able to reach 300 or more nodes from Maine, Eastern MA, RI, CT and even a couple in NY. To get things rolling the Meshtastic Turkey Hill Router Station (pvmesh.org (Turkey Hill)) and the R2D2 bot hardware (pvmesh.org (Leeds,, MA)) have been repurposed as MeshCore repeaters. Some maps showing the nodes, traffic and coverage area are available pvmesh.org MeshCore Map and the New England Analyzer. Unlike Meshtastic, the more MeshCore repeaters out there the better, so consider adding a repeater too.

There are plenty of online tutorials on how to flash a device to use MeshCore if you want to see what MeshCore is all about. For the Pioneer Valley area you should be setting your radio settings to the “USA/Canada (Recommended)” preset (910.525MHz, BW=62.5kHz, SF=7, CR=5). You also want to go into the “Experimental Settings” and set your “Default Path Hash Size” to 2 bytes. You should see some chatter in the Public channel, but there is also a #wmass channel for local discussion. To add this, click the 3 dots menu, Add Channel, Join a Hashtag Channel. There are also channels for #ct and #ma-mesh that be may of interest.

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