[bars] Is anyone familiar with mesh networks ? from W1LPG

[David Marcucci]

A mesh network is any network where the participants are not just receivers
of information but also senders of information that is traveling across the
network.

Imagine the cell phone system. You phone just receives data from the cell
phone towers. Now imagine if your cell phone also sent information to other
nearby cellphones and nearby cell phones could route messages, calls, or
data through your cell phone to reach the towers. How’s it is a mesh
network.

If you are familiar how the National Traffic System works to send
radiograms, that is technically a mesh network. I can create radiograms and
any operator can receive them and forward them onto the final recipient but
I also accept radiograms from other to sent them either to the recipient or
another operator to continue it on its way.

That’s my best simple explanation. There are a lot of more complex topics
beyond this to increase efficiency and improve resilience of the mesh but
that’s beyond basics.

73,
Dave, KC1TLF

On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM Welch, Brendan <Brendan_Welch at uml.edu>
wrote:

> www.nhmesh.com
> gives me too much.  I want a very simple, basic explanation
> for something which could be the next FT8 ???
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