M3 step 2: Meshtastic header and presets, pcap with LoRaTap (host-tested)

The 16-byte clear header (hops away, channel hash, relay node), the EU_868
presets and their frequency slots, and the channel hash, all checked
against Meshtastic's source. Captures are pcap with LoRaTap v0, read back
with TShark 4.2.5; packet RSSI is plain dBm, as Wireshark reads it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhqxQ49eCju4CzKYNjZzwT

docs/milestones/M3.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # M3 — Radio bring-up: the LoRa Scanner
 
-**Status:** in progress (branch `m3`): step 1 done.
+**Status:** in progress (branch `m3`): steps 1 and 2 done.
 
 **Goal:** the LoRa radio on the Cap works, receive only: a Radio Service owns it and shares the SPI bus with the SD card safely, and a LoRa Scanner App shows what's on the air, either packets (Sniffer) or energy across the band (Sweep). Nothing in M3 can transmit. The mesh comes on top of this in M4 (receive) and M5 (transmit).
 
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 - **The expander's P0 connects the antenna; it's required.** At power-on P0 is an input (direction 0x00, high-impedance 0xFF), and the receiver reads a flat **-111.9 dBm** at 869.525 MHz, BW 250 kHz: the chip's own floor, deaf. With P0 driven high, the noise floor is **-87 to -94 dBm**: the antenna hearing the room. So the Radio Service drives P0 high at boot (Q91).
 - **DIO2 doesn't change reception** (within ±2 dB over three runs, P0 high). It likely selects TX versus RX in the FM8625H; it stays the RF switch, as in Meshtastic.
 - **The noise floor at the desk is high** (-87 to -94 dBm, varying run to run), about 25 dB above thermal noise for 250 kHz. Something nearby is loud, possibly the Cardputer itself or the PC; Sweep (step 5) should show where it sits.
+- **Step 2:** presets, frequencies and the channel hash are checked against Meshtastic's source (`MeshRadio.h`, `RadioInterface.cpp`): LongFast and the default key give hash 8, MediumFast 31, as Meshtastic shows. Captures were checked with TShark 4.2.5: every LoRaTap field reads back. Wireshark ignores the spec's quarter-dB packet RSSI below 0 dB SNR, so packet RSSI is plain dBm.
 - **Cost:** RadioLib 7.8.1 and the probe add 23.6 KB of flash and 656 bytes of static RAM to the release firmware (1,679,843 bytes of 3,342,336).
 
 ## Decisions (design round 2026-10-05)