Best Off-Grid Comms For Emergencies? (Meshtastic For Beginners Pt1)

Meshtastic is a DIY radio text-messaging system that's been gaining popularity recently. It relies on community-maintained infrastructure instead of corporate or government networks.

It's been claimed that Meshtastic is great for emergencies or social disruption, but is this really the case? And what's the best Meshtastic device? What settings should you use? These are all frequent questions I get, and which I'll try to address in this video.

MSP Mesh info and settings can be found here: https://mspmesh.org/
Meshtastic general info and firmware flashing can be found here: https://meshtastic.org/

Some of the devices I showed in this video include:
T-Deck Plus (my overall favorite): https://amzn.to/49POFwM
T-Pager: https://amzn.to/4kbRpIj
Original T-Deck: https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-meshtastic
MeshPocket power bank: https://amzn.to/4a9b0nV
Sensecap Tracker: https://amzn.to/4acwXma
Meshnology antenna: https://amzn.to/3NIVW93

You can find T-Pager firmware by KateFox aka @MacintoshLibrarian here: https://github.com/Kate-hey/firmware-meshtastic/releases

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