Today I’m testing what I think is the start of a new chapter in long-range wireless: dual-band LoRa. It’s the same sub‑GHz LoRa we already know and trust, but now paired with a parallel 2.4 GHz LoRa band that opens up more bandwidth and flexibility—aka capabilities that weren’t realistic before. That’s why Meshtastic has been quietly moving past basic text + GPS and starting to experiment with higher-data features like voice. This is the kind of shift that changes what open, hackable networks can do. I walk through the Muzi Works Base ecosystem—specifically the Base Duo (sub‑GHz + 2.4 GHz LoRa) and the Super IO expansion board—and I show how I flashed Meshtastic (alpha) using the web flasher and DFU “drag-and-drop” method. Then I did a real-world range test using the stock PCB antennas. Even with one node sitting inside my cement brick house, I was still getting messages out to roughly a quarter mile, and LoRa kept working in conditions where Wi‑Fi would be dead—down into negative SNR and near the noise floor. The big takeaway: 2.4 GHz LoRa still behaves like LoRa, and pairing it with a modular, open platform is exactly how we build decentralized networks you can actually own, extend, and deploy anywhere.