Date: May 2025
Amount: $60,000

The Alberta Digital Radio Communications Society, founded in 2022, supports and develops digital technology in amateur radio. It operates the growing AREDN network across Alberta, the Northwest Territories, Eastern BC, and parts of Northern Montana. The Society is now developing the IP400 Network Project with ARDC funding to modernize amateur radio data communications. The project introduces a high-speed, plug-and-play data radio for UHF and VHF. It uses affordable IoT chipsets and Raspberry Pi computers. IP400 supports both repeater linking and mesh networking, with a focus on rural access. A key feature is an OFDM modem that can send different types of data, such as voice, telemetry, and video, to multiple users at the same time.

Learn more at https://ip400.adrcs.org/.