@FarmerEd Thanks for the information. Sorry I was traveling and just saw your posts. I did try a node but I think I was still in my setup confusion so it may not have been transmitting correctly. I will check and set one up. It is also a Heltec device but is not sleeping right now.
@toigo Thanks for the information on no sleep yet. I was going to use it with batteries so now I will need to rethink this.

Success! In all my testing and trying new settings, I missed that I had commented out on the gateway the frequency setting. It was noobie mistake and I want to thank all of you for your help. I ended up using @FarmerEd's sketches to get my gateway and sensor to work.

Thanks again.