The team at ARDC is pleased to announce that on March 26, 2024, Ashhar Farhan (VU2ESE), joined our Board of Directors. Licensed initially at the age of 15 as VU2FAX and “fascinated with electronics as a child,” Farhan became interested in amateur radio after being “hooked” following a local club coming to his school to … Read More
Last month, ARDC attended Hamvention 2024, and it was amazing! Our booth was buzzing with activity: we enjoyed seeing many of our current and prospective grantees and all of the folks that are interested in getting started on 44Net. Here’s a brief look back at Hamvention weekend. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our … Read More
ARDC is thrilled to publicly announce the launch of the 44Net Portal 2.0, now live at https://portal.ampr.org/. This update brings a host of new features and improvements aimed to enhance the overall user experience, including: an improved, modern user interface (UI), a modern, secure framework, capability to facilitate of a pool of administrators, DNS management, … Read More
As many of you likely know by now, we recently lost one of our beloved colleagues and friends: John Hays K7VE. Those who knew John – of which there were many – knew he was incredibly passionate about amateur radio and a brilliant engineer. First licensed in 1973 under the call sign WN7WHV, John was … Read More
The 2023 ARDC Annual Report is now available. Highlights from 2023 include:  Launching a new and responsive website Approving 69 grants, totaling about $5.3 million Ria Jairam N2RJ joining our Board of Directors Upon Dan Romanchik’s KB6NU retirement, Rebecca Key KO4KVG joining Staff as Communications Manager The TAC developing a proof-of-concept Point-of-Presence (PoP) architecture … Read More
