On Saturday, March 7, we hosted our 2026 Community Meeting. Participants joined us to hear updates on our work from 2025 and what lies ahead for the foundation in the coming year. These meetings provide an opportunity to share progress, discuss current initiatives, and connect with the broader ARDC community. Executive Director Rosy Schechter KJ7RYV … Read More
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
Transparency is one of our core values at ARDC. Thus it’s important to us that, every year, we take some time to walk through our audited financials, and to do our best to make sure they are understandable by everyone – including people who do not spend their days analyzing 990s. With this in mind, … 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
