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ARDC on the ICQPodcast

Posted: 26 Oct 2021 06:30 AM PDT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kb6nu/tVpu/~3/KgSJWuvivpA/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email


Im not a presenter on Episode #362 of the ICQPodcast, but this episodes
feature is my interview of ARDC Executive Director Rosy Schechter, KJ7RYV; Grants Manager Chelsea Párraga, KF0FVJ; and Outreach Manager John Hays, K7VE. In the interview, we talk about some of the cool grants that
ARDC has awarded lately, including following:

M17 Project. The M17 Project is an international group of Amateur Radio operators working on a new digital radio protocol that’s focused on being fully open, including the implementations. The ARDC grant of $250,000 will support the RF design and development, including test equipment,
prototypes, and developer kits. They will also be used to provide bounties
for solutions to particularly hard problems, and for the administrative
work that is less likely to get done on intrinsic motivation alone. Additionally, the ARDC grant will support server hosting and similar
operating costs as needed, and travel for a working meeting.
Paradox Sonic Space Research Agency (PSSR). PSSR was awarded $17,300 an open-source, universal small satellite platform within a single unit cube-satellite standard, weighing less than 1 kilogram, which could be used
as a baseline to carry out suborbital space missions. They will develop a nano-satellite with all the basic satellite subsystems and a Plug-and-Play (PnP) port installed for integrating additional experiments or payloads
without any hardware modifications.


The interview starts at the 1:25:45 mark.



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