LoRa diverges too strongly when applied in the real world. There are quirks in the chip (Semtech in the latest revision did a few strange things), and in the way chirp modulation works (the one used by LoRa), that makes it a lot better to test in the field.
Hey, I just learned that you wrote the original dump1090. Thanks for that! Makes sense yhat you’re pretty good at RF stuff, eh?