Field notes on
mesh intelligence.
News, updates, and the thinking behind Waev — what we're building for MeshCore operators, and why.
When the Grid Goes Down
How to use Waev to know your mesh network's real health before an emergency, and to read it during one — because resilience is verified in advance, not hoped for.
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Reading the Signal
A guide to SNR, hop count, and path quality for MeshCore operators — what the numbers in Live Packets and Network Stats mean, and how to tell a healthy link from a marginal one.
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Bring Your Own Broker
Waev operates on a bring-your-own-broker model: you host the MQTT broker, you own the data, and Waev subscribes with read-only credentials — a deliberate inversion of the usual SaaS data-grab.
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What We Choose Not to Know
Waev's privacy model is built on data minimization — three deliberate refusals at the ingest edge that determine what never enters the database, before any other processing happens.
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Your Mesh on Field Day
ARRL Field Day is the year's biggest off-grid operating event — and for mesh operators, a rare window to watch your network absorb a genuine surge of temporary stations in real time.
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The Opinionated Mesh Analyzer
Waev is a real-time analytics platform for MeshCore mesh radio networks. Privacy by default, evidence-based topology, and a data ownership model that keeps your community's data where it belongs — with you.
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From Radio to Map
The pipeline from a radio broadcast to a verified edge on Waev's Live Map — how enrolled observers, your MQTT broker, and the ingest edge work together.
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Where Your Network Ends
A practical playbook for using Waev's Live Map, Network Stats, and packet data to locate mesh coverage gaps and decide where the next repeater belongs.
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