Subj : ARDC/IP Address
To   : echicken
From : kk4qbn
Date : Wed Aug 21 2024 10:20 pm

  Re: ARDC/IP Address
  By: echicken to kk4qbn on Wed Aug 21 2024 20:56:40

 ec> As I understand it they have been giving out grants already. I only hope
 ec> the money is wisely invested so they can keep on doing that basically
 ec> forever.

Yep the portal also shows the grants that have been given, which a lot of them are a bit crazy in my opinion, 30,000 dollars to the university of scranton to study equatorial plazma bubbles, whatever that is. 40,000 to New England Sci-Tech to attrack more youths to amateur radio (ok this works if it is done correctly) 50,000 online arc new packet radio v3.0 seeding uk and ireland usage, 150,000 to the software freedom conservancy for compliance and enforcement. (don't agree with this) 558,000 to university of victoria for a cubesat..

Okay guys, want to launch a BBS to space??

ARISS got 110,000 for (next generation radio) whatever that is

Foundation for amateur radio (never heard of them) 400,000 for scholarships

A couple indengenous tribes got money to outfit their res (this is good imho)

100,000 to SFC for strategic GPL Enforcment

150,000 to the same for Firmware liberation project (sounds like their trying to buyout firmware and set it free??)

ARRL 200,000 for scholarships (they matched)

UC San Deigo for the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship 225,000

and there are lots of smaller projects and stuff from local ARCs and it has paid to put a few cubesats up.

Lots of STEM money, so yeah it is helping not only the amatuer radio community but a lot of other different communities we benefit from, looks pretty good.

Lots of Big money going to pretty big institutions, hopefully its all on the up and up. :-)
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Tim (kk4qbn)
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