Beginner: Raspberry PI SX162 SX1302 Gateway

Just to reinforce the comment above, no, very incorrect.

But now I’ve discovered that there is an RFM69 variant, I’ll be more explicit.

This is what I recommend people who want to learn to code a LoRaWAN device buy:

It is fully supported by LMIC 4.1 and by the very detailed, comphrehensive LMIC-node:

If you use LMIC-node & VS Code with PlatformIO there is a lot of help to be had on here. You can also use any of the other boards supported by LMIC-node.

Anything else your results will vary.

For clairity, the Pico is not suitable as a starter device.