Disclamer: I’m not talking about trespassing or such, just builds that will be hard to spot in public areas. Where I’m at all the best spots are forested recreation areas. Solar panels sized for 60deg North are a requirement.
Peace
Fred
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My ideal stealth node would look like a branch and the antena like the tail of a squirrel 
and has a bespoke quantum solar panel that runs at night off the spectrum of the street lamp. Still in development …
Drainpipes could be nodes but their location need to be right
when is a 
not a tree
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The cheap solar light hack is quite hard to spot, especially if you remove the led housing from the setup. Harbor Breeze Meshtastic Hack | Hackaday.io
Minus the white wind sensor it’s pretty compact.
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This is my clandstine node, a work in progress. This till be going on a grassy scrubby hill. Mounted on a T picket, Different antenna but its just a RAK and a couple of 18650s all squeezed into the smalled size case I could make. Going to maybe spray paint it with some streaks of brown then wrap it in some camo tape I have. hopefully it will survive the summer heat we get here in Australia, and not get caught in any bush fires.
Was already published, but fits the topic perfectly: routers in a nesting box.
5W solar panel on the roof, rak hardware with 2x 3200mAh 18650 cells and a 3dBi bend antenna in the nesting box.
Not recognizable as a node from the outside, and the 15mm wood does not dampen the LoRa signal when wet.
I have had 3 of these boxes in operation for a year.
You can also go 14 days without sunshine without any problems.
Of course I have permission from all property owners.
In some places (mountain peaks) there are simply fewer problems.
Ok, the antenna probably has 1-2dBi, but it’s enough to receive nodes, sometimes up to 170km away. Tits were even raised in one of the boxes in the spring.
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