The very short version of internet resiliency club is: organize some internet nerds in your area to buy a bunch of LoRa radios

- More time than money? Buy a Heltec V3
- More money than time? Buy a LILYGO T-Echo
- Flash your radio with Meshtastic over USB
- Use 868 MHz in EU and LONG_FAST
- Make a private channel
- Practice regularly

Feeling ambitious?

- Add a power bank with trickle charge (eg Anker 326)
- Add a 15W solar panel (eg Heko Unfold 15)
- Upgrade the antenna (eg Taoglas TI.08.A)

I got confused by the abbreviation IRC. To me it means Internet Relay Chat, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC

OTOH I might still get used to a new meaning :)

This comment strikes me as somewhat ironic, given that I first met @vaurora on an Internet Relay Chat channel several decades ago.

Part of my bubble seems to focus on reticulum[1], have you looked into that?

[1] https://reticulum.network/

looked into LoRa a while back and at some point gave up because I got stuck figuring something out. Maybe I should give it another go.

Will these power banks be used outside?

I think we're going to see a lot of very cheaply priced Anker 1263's on eBay in the coming weeks.