K5NWZ • Northern Colorado
Mesh, radio, projects, and mountain miles
Come for MeshCore or Meshtastic. Explore ham radio, RC builds, 3-D printing, Jeep trails, and whatever catches your curiosity next.
📡 Station pulseOn-air frequency, mode, and connections
🎧 Listen liveAllStar, DMR, and EchoLink audio
📻 Tune the SDRExplore Northern Colorado signals
⛅ Local conditionsLive Loveland weather station
Welcome to K5NWZ.com. I built this as one place for the hobbies and projects I am always sharing with friends. They tend to overlap: radios show up in the Jeep, mesh networks connect communities, and RC aircraft bring aviation and electronics together.
Come for the mesh. Stay for the adventure.
These hobbies have a way of leading into one another. Pick something that catches your eye.
Latest from the shack
A few things to explore while you’re here—from the Colorado mesh to the dashboard on my workbench.
Explore the live Colorado mesh
The live Colorado MeshCore map is now on the site. Explore nodes and network activity, then meet the community behind it. Take a look at the live map →
One dashboard, four radio worlds
I’m bringing Meshtastic, MeshCore, APRS, and Packet together in Home Assistant. Like most things in the shack, it keeps changing as I tinker. See the dashboard and mesh project notes →
Your first steps onto the mesh
Curious about joining in? Start with the local community, find a supported setup, and arrange your first message test. Read the new starter guide →
Explore the site
Amateur Radio — Station notes, hotspots and ways to connect, logbooks, packet radio, Meshtastic and Meshcore, and software defined radio.
Wayback Radio — Step into my old-time radio corner.
Outdoors — Overlanding, off-roading, camping, the DX Explorer Jeep, and my weather station.
RC & Projects — Radio control aircraft and vehicles, plus 3-D printing.
Join the conversation
This site is my reference library for settings, ideas, and lessons learned. For discussion and troubleshooting, join us on the K5NWZ Discord server. You can also get in touch with me or browse my useful links.
These pages grow as the projects do. If something here helps you get on the air, hit the trail, launch a glider, build a node, or solve a problem, then it’s doing exactly what it was meant to do. Welcome. Explore. You’re in the right place.