News and Events
Members of the LVMesh group, Scott, – K7RSW, Rick – K7FYI and Tom – KB7HTA installed a new mesh node at the Red Mountain repeater site that adds coverage for Boulder City. The installed node, a Ubiquiti Rocket M5 with a 90° – 17 dBi sector antenna points South East directly toward the center of town. In addition to the new node, Ethernet cabling was also replaced on the other mesh nodes with high quality UV resistant covering.
After the installation, a test of the mesh node was made by driving around Boulder City in Rick’s truck, which had a TP-Link CPE 510 mesh node attached. The results were very good, with an estimated coverage of 85-90% of the city. We all agree a mesh node, with an Omni antenna mounted on top of the city’s water tower, would be necessary to provide 100% coverage. It would be worth looking into down the road.
LV Mesh Network Tools
In recent days, Rick, K7FYI has been busy developing tools to better quantify our network’s connectivity and stability. He has made a video that can be seen here.
Mesh Node Relay Site Status
| Upper Potosi Mountain | |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – 90° Sector Antenna 20 dBi Channel 172 (5.860) BW 10 MHz – North East (Las Vegas) |  |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – 90° Sector Antenna 20 dBi Channel 177 (5.885) BW 10 MHz – North Northeast (Las Vegas) | |
| Red Mountain | |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – 90° Sector Antenna 20 dBi Channel 172 (5.860) BW 10 MHz – West (Las Vegas) | |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – 90° Sector Antenna 17 dBi Channel 175 (5.875) BW 10 MHz- South East (Boulder City) | |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – 6.8° Rocket Dish 30 dBi Channel 182 (5.910) BW 10 MHz – West (N7ZEV) | |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – 6.8° Rocket Dish 30 dBi Channel 158 (5.875) BW 20 MHz PtMP- North West (K7FYI) | |
| N7ZEV Relay Site | |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – 6.8° Rocket Dish 30 dBi Channel 182 (5.910) BW 10 MHz – East (Red Mtn) | |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – 6.8° Rocket Dish 30 dBi Channel 177 (5.885) BW 10 MHz – West (Potosi) | |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – Omni Antenna 13 dBi Channel 178 (5.890) BW 10 MHz | |
| Angel Peak | |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – 6.8° Rocket Dish 30 dBi Channel 175 (5.875) BW 10 MHz – Southeast (Red Mtn) | |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – 90° Sector Antenna 20 dBi Channel 172 (5.860) BW 10 MHz – East Southeast (Las Vegas) | |
| Ubiquiti Rocket M5 – Omni Antenna 13 dBi Channel 184 (5.920) BW 10 MHz | |
| K7FYI Relay Site | |
| MikroTik – 7° Dish 27 dBi Channel 158 (5.875) BW 20 MHz STATION – Southeast (Red Mtn) | |
| Ubiquiti Power Beam M5-620 7° Dish 29 dBi Channel 178 BW10 MHz (AA5QJ) | |
| Ubiquiti Power Beam 5AC 400/Gen2 8° Dish 25 dBi Channel 140 BW 40 MHz PIP (KO0OOO) | |
| Updated December 31, 2025 |
Group Information
LV Mesh Network Using Team Talk 5
December 31, 2025: TeamTalk 5 continues to be used on the LVMesh network for collaboration and a weekly NET. The NET has been active since Saturday November 15, 2019 and occurs on Sunday evenings at 1845 Pacific Time. TeamTalk is a conferencing system, which people use to communicate over a network using VoIP, data and video streaming. The TeamTalk conferencing system consists of a server running on a Raspberry Pi 4 located at the QTH of Tom, KB7HTA and client software that can be downloaded here. Its AREDN mesh address name is kb7hta-teamtalk.local.mesh. You can contact Tom, if you would like your own account or login with the user name of guest and a password of guest. The software is proprietary, freeware.