Is there a way to cheaply provide a solution with SDR, Mesh, etc.. One possible way might be internet over HAM radio [1] especially if you are near the boarder

Is there a way to cheaply provide a solution with SDR, Mesh, etc.. One possible way might be internet over HAM radio [1] especially if you are near the boarder and someone can relay/proxy for you, maybe. SDR Amateur Radio equipment is much more affordable now or at least less expensive than Starlink. This would be mostly for lightweight news sites and chat. Find a local HAM operator to assist you with this. If the goal is to get videos to the media then put them on a cheap USB thumb drive in a password protected 7-zip. [2] Tell the reporter the location and password from an anonymous phone call. Assume reporters are government, so consider putting many USB drives in many places and give each reporter a different USB location. This assumes the media have satellite internet or trusted mules. Or conversely if the goal is to share media from around the world, find someone with Starlink and download news videos using something like yt-dlp [3] and save them to thumb drives. Distribute the thumb drives to friends and have friends copy to other drives and repeat the process. One can "save-as" some news pages to directories on the thumb drives. Smaller thumb drives can be bought in bulk for very little. This is also known as SneakerNet [4]. [1] - https://www.arrl.org/internet-ham-radio https://www.arrl.org/internet-ham-radio [2] - https://7-zip.org/ https://7-zip.org/ [3] - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases [4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet