Western Slope - ColoradoMesh

Colorado's Mesh Network Community For The Western Slope

Welcome to the Western Slope group of ColoradoMesh

We currently have an amazing upcoming event in Montrose, CO - Telluride, CO in June 12-14. The Ryan Larkin Invitational Adventure Race, Please See Below!

We currently have members spanning the whole western slope including the areas:

  • Salida
  • Glenwood Springs
  • Grand Junction
  • Gunnison
  • Delta
  • Montrose
  • Ridgway
  • Ouray
  • Telluride
  • Durango
  • Cortez
  • Craig

Because of the long mountainous distances between node clusters, We are currently experimenting with setting up a private MQTT network. We aim to possibly bridge this network into the Front Range eventually, however we are only in the testing stages as of the Spring of 2026.

MQTT on the normal "msh/US/CO" in Meshtastic topic is a common method for node communication (using the internet) we are currently encouraging our members to use, because we don't see too much traffic from the MQTT server interrupting or flooding the RF efforts. However, this may change in the future.

Its important to remember that many towns on the western slope of Colorado are "islands" considering RF propagation, not only because of the Mountains & distances, but also the lack of members running node repeaters. We are here to help change this as the community grows.

There are several "Admins" that we have in the various areas listed above that are more than happy to help with node setup or even repeater placements. For instance, a Grand Junction member recently was able to install a repeater at a nice 80 ft tower location.

If you're interested in leading community efforts in your area of the Western Slope, and expand the mesh, Join the team on the Westerm Slope channel on our Discord! Our current admin for the channel is Andrew KFØUFO andrew@coloradomesh.org.
Any help, guidance, or questions are always welcome, and we have many members eager to help test equipment, signal coverage, or even coordinate & install nodes/repeaters.

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If any Colorado Mesh members are looking to attend and help out with the communications for the Ryan Larkin Invitational Race above, we ask you to please go to their website and fill out the Volunteer Registration Form as soon as possible. Thank You!

Please reach out to Andrew - KF0UFO by email: andrew at coloradomesh.org , or get in touch on the Colorado Mesh Discord regarding volunteering to help out with setting up, configuring, testing, etc the mesh network to be used by the Ryan Larkin Race.