A lot of prepper types are interested in emergency communications that don't use the Internet, and with good reason.
It's totally conceivable that our fragile IP-based infrastructure may go down for an extended period of time, or worse, be inaccessible to certain individuals due to wrongthink.
If either of these contingencies are inconceivable to you, this blog probably isn't your cup of tea, anyways.
Meshtastic, a mesh network standard operating on LoRa, is a popular choice for "grid down" data comms.
Meshtastic has a lot going for it: LoRa is an unlicensed band (915MHz in the USA) which gives it …