• Illini Solar Car team member on race day

    ARDC Funds Education Projects

    ARDC supports education projects involving amateur radio. One example is the Illini Solar Car team, where members build solar electric vehicles and are required to be licensed hams for race communications.

    Apply for a grant

  • A student at a soldering station at Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) Summer Camp 2024

    ARDC Helps Kids Succeed

    ARDC grants help kids explore amateur radio through programs, such as YOTA Summer Camp, fostering hands-on learning and technical skills.

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  • ARDC Scholars from Everett Community College, in collaboration with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

    ARDC Scholarships

    ARDC partners with organizations like ARRL, Society of Women Engineers (SWE, shown here), and universities to offer need- and merit-based scholarships for students in technical fields.

    Learn about scholarships

  • Slippers2Sat Project Manager Rishav Adhikari working on their 1U CubeSat

    ARDC Funds R&D Projects

    ARDC funds R&D projects that advance the art of amateur radio. One such project is Slippers2Sat, an open-source satellite project training Nepali students in underrepresented, marginalized, low-caste communities.

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  • Rows of binary code, reflecting Amateur Radio Digital Communications' (ARDCs) management of 44Net

    ARDC Manages 44Net

    44Net is shorthand for Internet network 44 (44.0.0.0/9, 44.128.0.0/10), also known as AMPRNet. Since its allocation to amateur radio in the mid-1980s, the network has been used by amateur radio operators to conduct scientific research and to experiment with digital communications over radio.

    Get started with 44Net

ARDC Closed for the Holidays!

We'll be closed from Dec. 20 - Jan. 4. Happy Holidays, and we'll see you on Jan. 5!

Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) is a private foundation that exists to support amateur radio and digital communication science and technology. We do this through making grants (including support for scholarship programs and research & development projects) and managing 44Net.

For more information, email us anytime: contact@ardc.net.