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 Think ham radio, but with a layer of technology for text based communication.

Are they overly useful most of the time? No. But situations could happen making them vital for communication. 
 🎯 
 It’s also great for education’s sake 🫡 
 Definitely. It's not an expensive hobby. Well, until you buy dozens of them and build out a large deployment 👀 
 Want!!! Once I’m back home I gotta figure out how to start connecting with other “nodes” out there. But the new toy turns on, has been flashed with current firmware, and successfully connected to my phone/laptop, all without needing to know a single line of code/CLI 😉 
 Thanks to you both. I'll add to my to do list. Any recommended devices/where to buy? 
 Here’s where I got mine — just make sure to choose the right frequency (915 mhz for USA, if I recall)


https://lilygo.cc/products/t-beam-v1-1-esp32-lora-module