The second package to arrive was a Raspberry Pi+ LoRa(TM) Expansion Board populated with HopeRF 434MHz & 915MHz modules. It was in a small cardboard box with bolts+spacers and had a small set of printed instructions.

The shield has four user controlable Light Emitting Diodes(LED) connected to General Purpose Input Output(GPIO) pins which will be useful  for providing feedback when trying to debug faults etc..

Some of the pin numbers are also printed on the shield silk screen.
This time the first step was to check the pin assignments of the 4 LEDs

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namespace devMobile.IoT.Rfm9x.UputronicsRPIPlusLed
{
using System;
using System.Threading;
using Windows.ApplicationModel.Background;
using Windows.Devices.Gpio;

public sealed class StartupTask : IBackgroundTask
{
public void Run(IBackgroundTaskInstance taskInstance)
{
GpioController gpioController = GpioController.GetDefault();

GpioPin ce01LedPin = gpioController.OpenPin(5);
ce01LedPin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Output);
ce01LedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.Low);

GpioPin ceo2LedPin = gpioController.OpenPin(21);
ceo2LedPin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Output);
ceo2LedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.High);

GpioPin lanLedPin = gpioController.OpenPin(6);
lanLedPin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Output);
lanLedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.Low);

GpioPin internetLedPin = gpioController.OpenPin(13);
internetLedPin.SetDriveMode(GpioPinDriveMode.Output);
internetLedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.High);

while (true)
{
if (ce01LedPin.Read() == GpioPinValue.High)
{
ce01LedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.Low);
}
else
{
ce01LedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.High);
}

if (ceo2LedPin.Read() == GpioPinValue.High)
{
ceo2LedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.Low);
}
else
{
ceo2LedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.High);
}

if (lanLedPin.Read() == GpioPinValue.High)
{
lanLedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.Low);
}
else
{
lanLedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.High);
}

if (internetLedPin.Read() == GpioPinValue.High)
{
internetLedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.Low);
}
else
{
internetLedPin.Write(GpioPinValue.High);
}

Thread.Sleep(500);
}
}
}
}

I think there is a small issue with the internet LED it should be GPIO13 (which matches the pin number)

The next step was to get the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) interface for both modules working.

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namespace devMobile.IoT.Rfm9x.UputronicsRPIPlusSPI
{
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;
using Windows.ApplicationModel.Background;
using Windows.Devices.Spi;

public sealed class StartupTask : IBackgroundTask
{
public void Run(IBackgroundTaskInstance taskInstance)
{
#if CS0
const int chipSelectPinNumber = 0;
#endif
#if CS1
const int chipSelectPinNumber = 1;
#endif
SpiController spiController = SpiController.GetDefaultAsync().AsTask().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
var settings = new SpiConnectionSettings(chipSelectPinNumber)
{
ClockFrequency = 500000,
Mode = SpiMode.Mode0,   // From SemTech docs pg 80 CPOL=0, CPHA=0
};
SpiDevice Device = spiController.GetDevice(settings);

while (true)
{
byte[] writeBuffer = new byte[] { 0x42 }; // RegVersion
byte[] readBuffer = new byte[1];

// Read the RegVersion silicon ID to check SPI works
Device.TransferSequential(writeBuffer, readBuffer);

#if CS0
Debug.WriteLine("CS0 Register RegVer 0x{0:x2} - Value 0X{1:x2} - Bits {2}", writeBuffer[0], readBuffer[0], Convert.ToString(readBuffer[0], 2).PadLeft(8, '0'));
#endif
#if CS1
Debug.WriteLine("CS1 Register RegVer 0x{0:x2} - Value 0X{1:x2} - Bits {2}", writeBuffer[0], readBuffer[0], Convert.ToString(readBuffer[0], 2).PadLeft(8, '0'));
#endif
Thread.Sleep(10000);
}
}
}
}

Like the other uputronics shield I have tested this appears not to have the reset line of the RFM9X connected.

The output confirmed the code worked with both CS0 and CS1 defined

CS0 Register RegVer 0x42 - Value 0X12 - Bits 00010010
CS0 Register RegVer 0x42 - Value 0X12 - Bits 00010010
CS0 Register RegVer 0x42 - Value 0X12 - Bits 00010010
CS0 Register RegVer 0x42 - Value 0X12 - Bits 00010010

CS1 Register RegVer 0x42 - Value 0X12 - Bits 00010010
CS1 Register RegVer 0x42 - Value 0X12 - Bits 00010010
CS1 Register RegVer 0x42 - Value 0X12 - Bits 00010010

Would have been more useful to read RegFrMsb = 0x06, RegFrMid = 0x7, and RegFrLsb = 0x08 so I could see the different default frequencies of the two HopeRF modules. The next step is to build support for this shield into my RFM9X.IoTCore library.