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MeshCore: Why You Actually Need This
Sal W6SAL - Updated on: 2025-10-27
Use Cases (Or: Why You Actually Need This)
1.
Off-Grid Communication
Hiking in the wilderness
Your cell carrier’s coverage is a lie anyway
Communicating with other humans without corporate intermediaries
Because sometimes you just want to be unreachable
2.
Emergency Response & Disaster Recovery
Hurricane took out cell towers? MeshCore’s still running.
Earthquake? More like mesh-quake (sorry).
Infrastructure down? Infrastructure
is
your mesh network now.
3.
Outdoor Adventures
Camping
Adventure racing
Getting lost but in a connected way
Bragging rights for having the coolest camping gear
4.
Privacy Enthusiasts
No metadata harvesting
No “targeted ads” based on your private conversations
No government backdoors (probably)
Just you, your friends, and encrypted radio waves
5.
IoT & Sensor Networks
Remote sensor data collection
Solar-powered nodes that live forever
Building your own mini weather network
Becoming a data scientist without the student loans