Having gained some experience with my weather station project described in the APRS LoRa weather station article, and having a few LoRa RFM95W modules, I decided to carry out a feasibility test for a very low-power mini weather station.

The initial results were very encouraging, so I continued my project until I had a mature design.

Lilygo LoRa modules from Lilygo are advertised to provide a power output of +20dBm (100mW).
Having had a module that looked suspicious, I was faced with the problem of measuring power.
Measuring the power of a fugitive signal such as LoRa is not always easy.

So I wrote a little script that makes it easy.
I also wrote a second script to test reception sensitivity.

I found that none of my modules reached the advertised power, which was more like +17dBm.