Tag: mesh

  • Mesh Networking: Meshtastic, MeshCore, and AREDN

    Mesh networking gets pitched online as the thing that will save your comms when everything else goes down. It is a genuinely interesting technology, and also not the magic bullet the hype suggests. This is the map to everything on QSO Journey about mesh: what it actually is, getting a Meshtastic node running, growing a…

  • What Is ATAK (CivTAK)? Tactical Mapping and Team Awareness Explained for Hams

    Part of our Emergency Communications and Preparedness guide. If you’ve spent any time in EmComm, SAR, or preparedness circles lately, you’ve probably seen the acronym ATAK thrown around next to phrases like “situational awareness” and “common operating picture.” It sounds military because it is military, but the civilian version has quietly become one of the…

  • Private, Secure, or Obscure? What Part 97 Actually Lets You Do With Your Comms

    FCC Part 97.113 bans encoding messages to hide their meaning, but that still leaves a lot of legal room for OPSEC, signal obscurity, and data integrity. Here’s how privacy, security, and obscurity actually break down across analog, digital voice, and data modes on the ham bands.

  • Meshtastic vs. AREDN vs. APRS: Which Mesh Tool for Which Job

    Three different technologies all get lumped together as ham radio mesh. They’re not interchangeable. Here’s what each one is actually built to do.

  • AREDN Mesh Networking: Building a Ham Radio Internet

    AREDN turns cheap off-the-shelf routers into a high-speed data network that runs entirely over ham radio frequencies, no internet required. Here is how the pieces fit together.

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