First Steps Into The Mesh

First Steps Into The MeshImagine an encrypted text communication network that is owned by you and your community, one that requires no subscription fees, works with little or no connection to the power grid, while serving as a gateway into meeting interesting new people and building skills in electronics. This is mesh radio! With mesh radio, you can send and receive text messages across a city - not by relying on a cell company or service providers, but instead by bouncing messages between other low cost, license-free radios operated by members of your community. Your message takes multiple hops between other users’ devices, and the contents remain encrypted all the way to the recipient. Two friends from across town can send messages by bouncing the packets between other radios in range of each other. Meshtastic and Meshcore are two common mesh radio systems you can get into today, with minimal upfront cost and experience. Read on to learn more! Table of Contents Why Mesh Radio?…