LoRa port for TARPN node
From TARPN Wiki
KV4P has been experimenting with adding LoRa ports to his TARPN node. LoRa is very desirable for TARPN because LoRa transceivers are very inexpensive yet have good range, are very small and low-power, and reduce the overall setup cost of a new link.
Materials:
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (~$15 when in stock), WITH gpio header
- Adafruit LoRa Radio Bonnet with OLED - RFM95W @ 915MHz - RadioFruit ($32.50)
- 78mm of magnet wire (33cm band 1/4 wave), soldered to the radio bonnet antenna center conductor via (right next to the connector we won't use)
This assumes you already have a TARPN node. With this experimental guide, you'll be buiding a LoRa radio that shows up on your network as a TCP-based KISS TNC, which port 11 or port 12 of your TARPN node will connect to via the network.
