PNWD now supports an on the air net as well as zoom meeting support for Meshcore. This net and zoom will be for our member’s support for efforts to learn more about Meshcore as well as assist in deploying repeaters.
Please join us for the “Mesh Net”, twice a month on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 1900 west coast time on the PNWR TG (31771) and Zoom (zoom.pnwdigital.net/pw: pnwdigital, same creds as the Gathering / members only please). Netlogger will also be used and available.
As the MC growth has mushroomed, we are already seeing the need to better manage that growth and traffic in the busiest regions. We hope to help in drilling down into the deeper areas for better management. Regions, paths, 2 byte and hashtag channels are areas to explore. PNWDigital is likely to actively support high level Meshcore repeaters and/or backhaul operation to help in the managed growth of Meshcore by use of our current high level repeater sites.
Our support will begin as a bi-weekly OTA net on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 1900 pacific on TG PNWR (31771). We will have a NCS, moderator or facilitator but it will likely be fairly informal. Preference will be given to over-the-air traffic first. Zoom will then begin with it’s traffic.
We are still tweaking the formation of the dual OTA and zoom formats, so please be patient. We welcome your suggestions and comments.
This net is likely to evolve as we feel our way along based on feedback from those who participate. Nothing set in stone, multiple NCS’s welcome to bring their own style, we may develop topics, agenda’s possibly. It’s new, so try it out. This bifurcated approach is somewhat like back-channeling on our nets but Zoom will be open, so name your poison.
NOTE: The OTA and Zoom are for members of PNWDigital. At this time non-members are not being excluded but we do reserve the right to make changes in the interest of primary support to PNWDigital members.
For our members, we have a full-featured Meshcore IO group. Also available is our Meshcore Signal Group and members are welcome to join us there as well. If you ham call is not included, you will not be automatically included. Email meshcore@pnwdigital.net if necessary.
The greater Meshcore community in the Palouse is an outstanding site with info for those just starting out as well as some advanced planning issues to address the growth of Meshcore. We also have The Palouse Mesh IO group but it has yet to catch on. But better we now have a website that supports. At this time, we have no other other area specific MC support.
We suggest that you add #pnwd to your channels as it is now active in western and south eastern Washington regions. Also adding puw or sea to your region scopes will help out for later growth.
First Published: May 21, 2026 Last Updated: 23 hours ago ago by Mike – NO7RF – Pullman
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