Freq51 - The Intermountain Mesh
Meshtastic® lets you use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long-range, off-grid communication platform where regular infrastructure is unreliable or unavailable. It’s community-driven and open source. Radios automatically form a mesh, forwarding packets to neighbors (up to 7 hops from origin). Phones are optional. The Freq51 community is building an open community mesh that anyone here can join. This network is intended as a Radio Frequency tool for emergency/disaster response and off-grid (non-internet) coordination and hobbyist projects. No license is required to use Meshtastic (unless you intentionally enable Ham Mode). Meshtastic is under active development and not a life-critical service.
Our Approach
Our aim is simple: connect SE Idaho to the greater Freq51 network and grow a reliable community mesh that anyone here can join. We're starting close to home in the Idaho Falls and Bonneville area and expanding outward, node by node, until our local coverage links up with the wider Intermountain Mesh. It's a community-run effort meant for off-grid coordination, emergency preparedness, and hobbyist tinkering.
As the network grows, so will this page.
Our Nodes
Newtwork Solutions Base (NSB1)
Name: Newtwork Solutions Base
Code: NSB1
Role: Base Station (CLIENT_BASE)
Location: Idaho Falls, ID · ~1,432 m elevation
Build: PoE RAK Ethernet node · 5.8 dBi antenna
Channel: Freq51
Uplink: Wired Ethernet (PoE)