Hi Zebryk,
I'm working on a project similar to yours so perhaps we can learn something from each other. My radio is a KFR transceiver from D6 Labs, and is based the SX1272 chip from Semtech. It uses SPI communications. I've searched this Forum and found the following thread which discusses SPI issues among other things:

http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...ghlight=rfm22b

Forum member Paul has posted some code at post #5 which I have found useful as a guide. Based on this info I have put together some code to just test the send and receive function of the Pic to the KFR radio via SPI. Unfortunately, it is not working as yet ... I'm still trouble shooting. If you are interested I can post my code ... it is very simple.