A pair of cased Heltec V4 nodes
The stock stub antenna is enough for a first test on the bench.
This Meshnology listing is two complete Heltec V4-class mesh nodes. They run Meshtastic or MeshCore, whichever your local mesh uses. Each one arrives with the green case, a 3000 mAh battery, and an L76 GNSS module on the ESP32-S3 SX1262 board, so you can flash both and walk a link the same day. It is worth upgrading once the node is out on the mesh.
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