GPS tracking with LoRa

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Best practices when sending GPS location data [HowTo]

I’m trying to combine some information found in other posts, as a reference for a future FAQ or Wiki page. It seems: Moving nodes should switch off Adaptive Data Rate (or do they?), and always send with the slowest rate (SF12) (or do they? as fixed SF11 or SF12 is not allowed!), and hence are bound to a maximum application payload length of 51 bytes? On SF12 a maximum frame of 51 bytes will take almost 2.5 seconds to transmit? On SF12, when all 51 bytes are needed, so when sending for …