Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands,

Some nodes have up to 5 watts, but you have to put them in ham mode with your license, it also disables encryption (ham requirement)

You can stitch together several different cheap radios in different frequencies using MQTT.

TBF, I’d be super happy just to move back to APRS, (i’m a ham) but the equipment is stupid expensive.