I was probably overreaching my initial first use of nostr. Already had Start9OS appliance working and using tor to its other services...so installed nostr relay service.  Have Orbot running on mobile.  Then tried to setup Amethyst on mobile running CalyxOS and add the onion via WS://  

 I'm circling back to test out some other settings.  I'm going into Orbot to specifically select the nostr apps.  I'm going into Mullvad vpn to specifically exclude (split tunnel) the same nostr apps.