I say, let’s fucking go. It’ll be bad in short term , but longterm it’ll be a boom, diversifying your trade partners is never a bad thing, and our over reliance on the US has only made us complacent… Tarrifs or not, when your girlfriend says she’s leaving and then changes her mind, you pack her bags all the same.
Yea there are some pretty cool ones these days that resemble a blackberry. Checkout the " t-deck plus" by lilygo. The repeater nodes could be cheap solar powered remotes setup at high vantage points, wouldn’t need too many to get city coverage given the line of sight , drone drop’em on a couple of highrise rooftops and off you go. …in theory.
NVIS is hard to locate without flyovers. It bounces the signal of the ionosphere kind of like a water hose shooting water straight up . Transmit and reposition. Range is up to 800km’s .
Alt flood of meshtastic nodes, without GPS data provide encrypted rebroadcast capability.
Checkout s2underground’s project- GhostNet. He’s ex military intelligence. https://github.com/s2underground/GhostNet
It’s prob a Russian sponsored account. Telling you , decapitate Russia and all this shit crawls back under a rock.
Another rgood app is “andflmsg” for Android. It will.let you use a all the common modulation schemes , to transmit text, it can even send images.