Idaho's off-grid mesh
A community-driven, off-grid, resilient, encrypted communication network built on inexpensive LoRa radios — Meshtastic, MeshCore & Reticulum. Grab a radio and get offline. You can't stop the signal.
Live network status
Live channel chat
THE PROTOCOLS
ENCRYPTED · TRANSPORT-AGNOSTIC
Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack for building both local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware, that can continue to operate under adverse conditions, such as extremely low bandwidth and very high latency.
THE EASY ON-RAMP
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!
ROUTING · REPEATERS · ROOMS
MeshCore is a simple, secure, off-grid mesh communications system.
Build your own low-cost, long-range, encrypted messaging network.
You can still send messages even when WiFi, Cellular, and Starlink are down.
FIND YOUR GROUP
Here's who's active across the region. Jump into whichever fits your area and gear — or join more than one.
Founded by Zeb Palmer W7ATC in the Treasure Valley. Predominantly MeshCore througout The Treasure Valley. It is not yet linked to the rest of Idaho
Join the Idaho Mesh DiscordThe Intermountain Mesh, originally Salt Lake based, is expanded from Provo to Twin Falls to Boise to Emmett on Meshtastic.
Join the Intermountain Mesh DiscordEastern Idaho propelled into MeshCore and featured prominently by LDSPrepper on YouTube. From Driggs to Idaho Falls to Pocatello and Twin Falls.
Join the East Idaho Mesh DiscordGET ON THE MESH
Match it to your area and how far you want to reach.
A Heltec, RAK, or T-Beam LoRa board runs around $30. No ham license needed for the public channels. Check out the Community Recommendations.
Web flashers set up Meshtastic or MeshCore in minutes; Reticulum installs on hardware you may already have.
Hop into the community chat and meet the people keeping the region on the air.
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