Unreliable content with RFM69C and emonBase

More troubles today trying to get JeeLib to work with an ATMega 2560 (Robodyn mega mini).
After lots of debugging this appears to be an issue with the SPI setup, this sequence makes it work for me:

SPI.begin();
delay(100);
rf12_initialize(nodeId, RF_freq, networkGroup);
delay(100);

I haven’t investigated further.

Franck