Our MeshCore settings have changed to defaults on May 25. Please update your nodes and repeater settings. See our docs
Comms that hold
when the coast does not.
Gulf Coast Mesh is a volunteer-built communications fabric — anchored in Louisiana, growing across the US Gulf Coast. Open hardware. Decentralized routing. Real neighbors on the other end.
Weekly Monday voice net on Discord — everyone welcome.
Gulf Coast Explorer
MeshCore · 302 nodes · 182 active 24h
302
mapped nodes
429 ever seen
260
repeaters
9 room servers on the backbone
182
active in 24h
12 online right now
756
links observed
across the rolling window
live snapshot · auto-refreshes every 5 min · open live maps
Rooftops, towers, and front porches — all on the same mesh.
Mesh radios pass messages neighbor-to-neighbor over license-free LoRa. Backbone repeaters live on real towers and high rooftops, with three more tower sites coming online in the next three months.
Live maps you can actually read
Watch Meshcore and Meshtastic activity ripple across the coast in real time. See who heard whom, which repeaters are hot, and where the next install would matter most.
Built for hurricane season
When the cell network drops and the internet goes with it, the mesh keeps moving — on solar, battery, or a USB pack — backed by our repeaters on tall sites.
Open and tinkerable
Open firmware, open docs, open neighbors. Hack the stack, file a PR, or just show up and ask questions.
Stack snapshot
Meshcore
One obsession: messages that arrive. Meshcore is the backbone of the Gulf Coast network — reliability-first routing built to scale from a single rooftop to the whole coast.
Meshcore
Reliability-first routing with deep pathing — up to 32 hops for coast-scale links and repeater backbones.
From box-fresh radio to the coast-wide net in three steps.
- 01
Pick your hardware
New to LoRa? Start with our recommended devices and the antenna guide so your first radio just works.
- 02
Set up a daily-carry companion
Get a MeshCore companion on your belt or in your bag — paired with your phone, ready to message neighbors.
- 03
Stand up a repeater
Have a place with sky? Run a repeater and extend the network. We’ll help you plan, build, and tune it.
Anchored in Louisiana,
growing the whole Gulf.
Today the live network is concentrated across Louisiana. The mission is bigger — neighbors helping neighbors from Corpus Christi to Panama City. If you’re elsewhere on the Gulf, come build with us.
- TX
South Texas
Coming soon™Corpus Christi · Houston · Galveston
- LA
Louisiana
221 liveLake Charles · Lafayette · Baton Rouge · New Orleans
- MS
Mississippi Coast
6 liveGulfport · Biloxi · Pascagoula
- AL
Alabama Shore
27 liveMobile · Dauphin Island · Gulf Shores
- FL
Northwest Florida
38 livePensacola · Destin · Panama City
Meshcore frequency settings have been updated
Repeater operators — please review the latest guidance so the coast-wide network stays in sync.