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
Earlier this year, ARDC invited a panel of experts on marketing, outreach, and building partnerships to help our grantees with one of the most common challenges we see – getting the word out about their programs. In the video recording here, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, John Schouten VE7TI, and Jim Idelson K1IR share tips to leverage … 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
Below is a guest contribution from Peter Bloom, General Coordinator of ARDC grantee Rhizomatica. If you’re a grantee and are interested in submitting a guest contribution, please reach out to giving@ardc.net. Our organization, Rhizomatica, is a non-profit organization supporting worldwide community communications infrastructure in hard-to-reach areas like the Ecuadorian and Brazilian Amazon, Central African Republic, … Read More