Amateur radio news from around Colorado and the broader ham world — new gear, rule changes, contests, and what’s happening on the bands. Curated for the club; every item links to the original source.
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MeshCore separates U.S. and Canadian network presets
MeshCore has separated the shared USA/Canada recommended preset into distinct regional choices, according to a September 9 report from Mesh America. The USA preset retains its existing defaults. The new Canada preset keeps the same listed radio parameters—910.525 MHz, spreading factor 7, 62.5 kHz bandwidth and coding rate 5—but applies a three-byte…
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WeatherXM D2 Mesh Brings Solar Weather Sensing to LoRa Meshes
WeatherXM has unveiled the D2 Mesh, a solar-powered, off-grid weather-station kit designed to send local readings over LoRa using Meshtastic or MeshCore rather than Wi-Fi or a cellular plan. Mesh America reports that one firmware build can also use WeatherXM’s own LoRa transport, with the active protocol selected at runtime without rebuilding…
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MeshCore 1.49.0 Adds Repeater Path Tracing and Network Controls
MeshCore Companion App version 1.49.0 adds a direct way to trace the current route to and from a repeater, giving users a clearer view of how their traffic is crossing an off-grid LoRa mesh. Although the underlying app release arrived August 22, Mesh America published a detailed account of the changes today,…
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MeshCore’s KISS Modem Role Opens a Path to Custom Gateways
MeshCore users building gateways and custom applications have a clearer picture of the firmware’s KISS Modem role following an August explanation from developer Michael Overhorst, reported by Mesh America. The role changes a MeshCore radio from a phone-app node into a serially controlled LoRa interface, using the long-established KISS packet framing protocol.…