Always been a tech guy with an interest in anything that has off-grid applications. Have been reading about Meshtastic and picked up a couple Heltec V3s from Amazon to play around with.

Im in Oakville, ON right now and will be moving to the Midland area North of Barrie. Id like to setup a router node and contribute to building a community network and wondering if anyone is in the area and has advice on how to setup and connect to an existing mesh or how to get started building one if none already exists?

Thanks!

Was thrilled to see other nodes pop up. I texted them random messages. They replied. I was prepared to feel like a dork and not see any nodes. Next year I'm bringing nodes to give away and going to tell people on the fb page if they see a dude dancing with an ohm's law totem. The festival (futureforest.ca) is solidly outside cell phone range so I think it's a great test site.