Practice with car batteries & a dish taken from a house. Put them everywhere with a small solar panel, a grenade & a scrim net, start now. I'm trying to protect the phones. Radio signals can be directional by use of a steel drainpipe or other common steel tube, like a microwave transmitter. We want as much by common & locally available materials as we can. Cable ties can fix a tube to a tree for relay over distances. Sew three nets together with embroidery thread. Make a hole for some of the gear.
SIS: Cable ties look really bad
Try mixing dark brown & yellow ochre acrylic paint. Spay them all brown before you begin.