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 beginning June 2, 2026 at 7pm west coast time on the Cascades TG and Zoom (zoom.pnwdigital.net/pw: pnwdigital, same creds as the Gathering). On July 7,th, we will switch to the PNWR talkgroup. 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 support to add to the mesh by deploying repeaters or bridging at some of repeater sites.
We will begin as a bi-weekly net, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays. 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 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.
The Palouse Mesh has it’s own stripped down freebie IO group and has yet to catch on.
Stay tuned for more and some changes too in the coming weeks.
First Published: May 21, 2026 Last Updated: 7 days ago ago by Mike – NO7RF – Pullman
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