

Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands, specially shortwave, then meshtastic would be an incredibility powerful too. However illegal.
Sounds like you should look into getting an amateur radio license!
Also, power isn’t really the issue. Power only helps you while sending, not while receiving. What you want is a good antenna which helps with both sending and receiving. For example, if you’re somewhere remote but you know there’s a city in a specific direction you could get a directional antenna like a yagi and point it that way.











They list the elevation.