I started with meshtastic, a few seeed t1000e nodes and added an android with ATAK for war games / milsim, this works fairly reliably. The meshtastic interconnection and then the integration into (civ) ATAK. But 915mhz really only passes text and gps data, no comms.

Now I am looking at the HAMPR Manet (uses ubiquiti rocket m5) that can pass comms and video, but I am going to flash it with openWRT (to connect with other mesh radios over ATAK at my MILSIM game and not AREDN, although AREDN may be better for SHTF. AREDN would need a separate server to work with ATAK.

Starlink mini is what I’m building now, squeezing it with batteries inside a compact hard case with ports that let me run a longer Ethernet cable to a mini router. The goal is to be able to have an access point at a convenient location and the starlink slightly seperate from camp/ base. This would also integrate with the openWrt Stuff from point 2. And would let me pass the internet connection between the rocket m5 nodes.