yeah, I was having difficulty with the site all day, I suspected it was caught up in that massive DDOS attack.
Okay, photos should be attached now.
When trying to diagnose the problem, I tried different ICs with different clock speeds, different power supplies including battery. Nothing made a difference, but if I pressed my fingers against the header pins, it worked. Or if I touched my finger to the antennae, it worked. So that somehow suggested to me some kind of capacitance, so I gave it a shot as kind of a Hail-Mary, and it started working like a champ. I used the sender and receiver sketches from here as the code:
