Thank you so much, scalz.
That solved my problem.
Just soldered them and now it works.
It really seems the arduino needs a good wired connection in order to work.
@WiktorDIY The ch340 are notorious for being broken. The best I ever achieved was 19200 and flakey..
I purchased a real Nano not a ch knock off eg uses a different uart no problems
FYI: RadioHead library 1.34 has some specific initialization code for RFM73 in the nRF24 driver (e.g. ACTIVATE command).
See https://github.com/Yveaux/RadioHead/commit/f895ba933950681234d714fd7c3d3c18658b8ed5
@dzungpham0703
I buy them on Aliexpress:
https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20180706102504&SearchText=HTTM
If you apply hot air it is easy to take off the white "double sided tape" and the plastic.