LoRa-RFM96 433MHZ range test -->5.2 miles, 8.3km !!!

[luisgcu]

Sounds reasonable.  If you ever do decide to take another run at directly connecting the SD card, you may want to give Arduino IDE 1.0.6 a try.  It may be a longshot, but at least on the Moteino R4 reverting to 1.0.6  resolved some bizarre SPI issues I was having wrt the Winbond SPI Flash memory.

finally I got moteino and RFM95/96 sharing the SPI, I tried different SD card library.
https://github.com/greiman/SdFat