Thanks again, yes I will use Drone Wkshp now That I have the right chip

I'm going with Adafruit RFM69HCW and RFM9X LoRa Packet Radio Breakouts

bare LORA board, a PTSolns prototyping kit and a pair of Heltec LORA radios kit... where'd you get these... the heltec website is for sale...

I guess I've been mislead by reviews posted on Amazon for RYLR896, and Youtube videos indicating success is using the RYLR896 Lora board and only Rx...

From his sketch // Define the pins used by the LoRa module const int csPin = 4; // LoRa radio chip select const int resetPin = 2; // LoRa r...

Yes, have powered it with 3.3v, watched Bill's Vid ( different pinout ) , and many other UTube vids, and reviewed the AT commands. But thanks for yo...

Thanks ... it may be related to the IDE not recognizing any of my Nano s?

Thanks Ron I'll do that but I dont understand once I do how they " forget " what board Im using. Is there a tutorial on the Arduino IDE?

still an issue cant on two my machines this AM "No board selected. Please select your Arduino board from the Tools > Board menu.Missing FQBN (...

thanks! Nano V3.0, Nano Board ATmega328P 5V 16M Micro-Controller Board Compatible with Arduino IDE

No weird right?

I gonna wait to call it resolved since it happened on all 3 of my machines and I cant imagine how it worked. But Thanks

!! That worked! Uninstalling AVR MBoards / then reinstalling and picking UNO worked. I have no idea this was necessary and how it helps. Can U E...

Missing FQBN (Fully Qualified Board Name)

I've been using the Arduino IDE with UNO for years and this has just started happening. Must be related to the Updates.