Back around 2020 a new word began entering the vocabulary of radio nerds around the world – LoRaWAN, or Long Range WAN – a neat protocol which sends small amounts of data large distances using tiny amounts of power. As the years went along the technology kept improving and while I was aware of it, I was a busy person and hadn’t looked too deeply into the technology, despite being a self-professed radio nerd! Fastforward to mid-2025 and I found myself dragged into a LoRa project when a friend needed me to make introductions to a tower site owner in Continue Reading