Our 2025 Annual Report is now available, highlighting a year of progress as we rolled out new initiatives, shared a clearer strategic direction, and continued supporting innovation across our community. Highlights include: Rolling out our vision, strategy, and priority areas for funding Approving 79 grants, totaling about $3.4 million, supporting projects across amateur radio and … Read More
Are you a ham that wants to experiment with 44Net but found the setup process to be intimidating? Say no more, because we’ve got great news for you! We’re excited to introduce 44Net Connect, a service that makes it easy for hams to begin using 44Net IPv4 addresses through a simple, modern setup. Whether you’re … Read More
Below is a guest contribution from David Rowe VK5DGR of FreeDV. If you’re a grantee and are interested in submitting a guest contribution, please reach out to giving@ardc.net. The FreeDV project has recently published a paper on their Baseband FM (BBFM) technology. This technology provides unprecedented speech quality and robustness for VHF/UHF land mobile radio … Read More
We’re excited to share that we are now on YouTube! Our channel will be a place where we highlight information about our programs, along with relevant how-to guides, and other content that supports our mission. To kick things off, in continuing our celebration of 44 years of 44Net, we invite you to check out our … Read More
The team at ARDC is pleased to announce that on July 25, 2025, Harald Welte joined our Board of Directors. Harald has been fascinated by electronics since childhood days, and remains fascinated by both electronics (from analog to digital) and computers ever since. Self-taught in various technology fields, Harald started his professional life with a … Read More
