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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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.…
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IP400 Mesh-Radio Project Enters Beta of Its Third Phase
The Alberta Digital Radio Communications Society says its IP400 project has entered beta testing for phase three, a new stage in its work on amateur-oriented mesh networking over the 400 MHz band. Its August 7 status update says phase three introduces the Advanced Mesh Network Controller (AMNC), designed to connect with off-the-shelf…