alt Hacker NewsObviously, put that relay node on a hill, on some structure where you don't live. Or maybe on the roof of your tall apartment building, among all the satellite dishes and their associated boxes. Pretend to be one of those.
If it's a self-contained, solar-powered node, it needs not be next to you, or to anyone. It should be safe and secure, to be of use during a natural disaster, or an outburst of violence.
Until you actually need to use it. You need to get the data you want to transmit over to it. Where you'll either have another transmitter at your location. A cable snaking back to your location. Or a directional antenna pointed at your location.
Unless you plan to manually go up the hill with a flash drive each time.