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Amateur Radio Digital Communications: all 390 grants

Largest first · $21.4M across 2022–2025 · back to the overview

$14,321
Von Braun Astronomical Society · Huntsville, AL · 2022
Establish a comprehensive meteor detection and interpretation set up, as well as additional tools for amateur radio astronomy and geophysics exploration.
$14,200
University of Notre Dame Du Lac · Notre Dame, IN · 2022
Provide students with development tools and test equipment for learning analog and digital radio and antenna technology
$14,186
Radio Amateur Du-of Quebec Inc (On Behalf of La Federation Des Clubs Radioa · 2025
Builds a dedicated satellite ground station so crasoi can train operators, support digital satellite work, and contribute real data and monitoring to others.
$14,106
Emergency Communications in Calabasas · Calabasas, CA · 2022
Deploy winlink gateways at existing secure sites. Hold classes to demonstrate the use of gateways. Deploy two clearrpt systems and promote their use by holding classes.
$14,065
Raleigh Amateur Radio Society (Rars) · Raleigh, NC · 2025
Establish a portable amateur radio satellite ground station to support ariss contacts and hands-on space communications demonstrations for schools and youth groups.
$13,950
STEM Harvest Inc (On Behalf of Ellis County Amateur Radio Emergency Service · Hays, KS · 2025
Expand digital amateur radio coverage to improve emergency communications and regional connectivity in a rural area.
$13,939
Ontario Tech University · 2025
Develop a mobile amateur radio repeater system to support reliable long-range communication and telemetry during rocket launches at launch canada.
$13,783
Platinum Coast Amateur Radio Society · Melbourne, FL · 2023
Rfi detection/mitigation and research
$13,452
South Mountain Repeater Association · Mechanicsburg, PA · 2022
To support amateur radio fcc test preparation classes.
$13,176
Utah Tech University Amateur Radio S-Band Ground Station · St George, UT · 2025
Building an s-band ground station to support cubesat missions and hands-on stem outreach.
$13,137
Open Collective Europe (On Behalf of) Amateurfunkgruppe Burgdorf Hb9be · 2024
#1512 provides access to an aredn network to the hams living in the city of burgdorf.
$13,000
Kentucky District 7 Amateur Radio Emergency Team · Union, KY · 2022
Move two club repeaters from a repeater saturated geographical area to a newly available radio tower.
$12,839
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of River Forest · River Forest, IL · 2025
Parks on the air and summits on the air to give students practical radio experience through outdoor activities and build technical skills.
$12,700
Alumni and Friends of Gator Amateur Radio · Hawthorne, FL · 2022
Getting a fully-remote setup for their flex 6600 series radio.
$12,601
Center for Amateur Radio Learning · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
To upgrade amateur radio equipment for the arizona science center, which serves 100,000+ students annually.
$12,395
Lucas County Amateur Radio Emergency Services · Risingsun, OH · 2023
Kickstart a permanent deployment of a high speed data mesh network, using equipment with firmware from the aredn mesh project, in the greater toledo, ohio area. Using hospitals for main nodes as geography is relatively … read allKickstart a permanent deployment of a high speed data mesh network, using equipment with firmware from the aredn mesh project, in the greater toledo, ohio area. Using hospitals for main nodes as geography is relatively flat. less
$12,268
Pima Community College Foundation · Oro Valley, AZ · 2025
Equipping a comunity college ham radio station with permanent hf and vhf/uhf equiptment, antennas, basic test equipment, and professionally installed antennas.
$11,859
Spout Springs Repeater Association · Kennewick, WA · 2022
Encourage, train, and test youth to obtain their amateur radio license, as well as provide them with an entry-level radio, and a repeater network, at no cost to them so that the hobby of amateur radio is carried into th… read allEncourage, train, and test youth to obtain their amateur radio license, as well as provide them with an entry-level radio, and a repeater network, at no cost to them so that the hobby of amateur radio is carried into the next generation. less
$11,781
Artisans Asylum · Somerville, MA · 2022
Add equipment for rf development to the artisans asylum electronics and robotics shop, including a spectrum analyzer, rf signal generator, a ham transceiver, a computer for digital modes, and a simple roof antenna.
$11,730
Hot Springs Amateur Radio Club · Hot Springs, SD · 2025
Expand rural repeater coverage and provide licensing and hands-on training for new amateur radio operators, with a focus on youth education and emergency communications readiness.
$11,694
Lakes of the Four Seasons Volunteer Fire Force · Hebron, IN · 2024
#1330 northwest indiana amateur radio partnership
$11,529
Utah State University · Logan, UT · 2024
#1467 funding to update a ground station so it can communicate with a cubesat. The group will conduct outreach by providing hands-on demonstrations.
$11,518
Sandra · San Diego, CA · 2024
#1400 builds a library catalog to hold and preserve open source ham software projects created by individuals.
$11,148
Gloucester County Amateur Radio Foundation · Woodbury, NJ · 2022
Establish a vhf/uhf station at the gcarc clubhouse that can be used for research and education of hams in the southern new jersey area.
$11,040
St Croix Valley Ares Races · Hudson, WI · 2025
Relocation of an amateur radio repeater to a county owned tower so it can continue operating reliably.
$11,000
Harlan Community School District Education Foundation · Harlan, LA · 2022
Equipment for school club. Purchases go box, kits for students to build, and exam books.
$10,911
801labs · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Support amateur radio classes at a hackerspace.
$10,750
Mid-State Amateur Radio Club · Greenwood, IN · 2023
Update equipment, increase range of a repeater system, and add digital capabilities.
$10,719
University of Louisiana · Lafayette, LA · 2024
#1395 update radio club equipment including hf and satellite capabilities. Club expansion plans include outreach to college and high-school students.
$10,662
Electronic Applications Radio Service · Union, KY · 2025
Funding to host the youth on the air camp to promote youth involvement in amateur radio.
$10,602
Southern Amateur Radio Union · Brewton, AL · 2023
Improvement of saru communications infrastructure and communication modes including use during times of emergency in the tornado and hurricane prone area.
$10,517
Anchorage Amateur Radio Club · Anchorage, AK · 2023
Develop pigate emergency email gateway software to add additional features, including enhancing its deployability.
$10,500
Lehi Amateur Radio Club (Larc) · Lehi, UT · 2022
Upgrade battery backup systems, equipment racking, and 1kw inverter. Install power monitoring devices. Expand aredn system. Provide spare repeater, controller and duplexers for the larc system. Add allstar linking syste… read allUpgrade battery backup systems, equipment racking, and 1kw inverter. Install power monitoring devices. Expand aredn system. Provide spare repeater, controller and duplexers for the larc system. Add allstar linking system. less
$10,000
Hampden County Radio Association · Longmeadow, MA · 2022
To create a 17-day long amateur radio demonstration at the eastern states exposition.
$9,563
Fondation Open Collective Europe (On Behalf of Radiokomunikacja Kryzysowa ( · 2025
Expands hamnet into the lublin district to improve local coverage, extend network coverage to rural users, and support youth engagement through school outreach and a revived radio club.
$9,505
Cross Roads Ham Radio Club · Ganado, TX · 2024
#1555 acquire portable hf, vhf, and uhf equipment for go-boxes
$9,394
Boundary Amateur Radio Club · Naples, ID · 2025
Supports in person and online license classes, electronics and sdr based activities, weather balloon tracking, scouting programs, and provides exam fees and basic radios for newly licensed youth.
$9,328
Ece Repeater Group · Bonny Doon, CA · 2023
Purchase backup power system for repeaters
$9,179
Lake Monroe Amateur Radio Society · Orlando, FL · 2025
Upgrading and relocating the lmars repeater to a new regional hospital site, restoring and expanding vhf coverage.
$9,143
Trilogy Amateur Radio Club · Bonney Lake, WA · 2025
Install a new vhf repeater to improve emergency communications and general amateur radio coverage across the region.
$8,986
Open Collective Europe · 2023
Amateur radio training, licensing, and radios for 30 "village level entrepreneurs" in india.
$8,950
Voice of Idaho Amateur Radio Club Incorporated · Boise, ID · 2024
#1421 update repeaters and link them together for better club communications.
$8,866
Radio Amateur Du-of Quebec Inc (On Behalf of Club Radio Amateur De Matane) · 2025
Install a club hf station to support training, public demonstrations, and resilient long-distance communications.
$8,850
Montrose Amateur Radio Club · Montrose, CO · 2022
Replace a 40+-year-old camper trailer with a new 6x12 cargo trailer.
$8,700
Vrza (Vereniging Van Radio Zendamateurs) · 2024
#1367 update software and repeater network across the netherlands.
$8,300
Hampden County Radio Association · Longmeadow, MA · 2023
Club growth and recruitment. Educate the public about amateur radio
$8,300
Sondehub · 2022
Continue operations for 12 months for a global, crowdsourced meteorological weather balloon monitoring platform.
$8,000
Northwest Missouri Ares Group · St Joseph, MO · 2023
Upgrade and repair the clubs repeater system and build a state of the art club station.
$8,000
Radio Scouting · Winter Garden, FL · 2022
Add solar panels and lithium batteries to a scout ham trailer for a stem educational display.
$7,935
Cascade Amateur Radio Society · Tigard, OR · 2023
Research on effectiveness of faraday cages to protect ham radios from emp.
$7,547
Regents of the University of California at San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Kk6uc club modernization and public service
$7,509
Seagull Solar Ltd · Staten Island, NY · 2025
High school solar car team in new york city. This grant enables them to add amateur radio to their student activities, which reach 25 - 30 students annually.
$7,275
Brick Store Museum · Kennebunk, ME · 2024
#1539 create an educational interactive amateur radio display and ham shack within the museum to expand outreach.
$7,100
Northwest New Mexico Emcomm Group · Aztec, NM · 2025
Supports the deployment of a digipeater system with starlink internet connection. The system will provide coverage across northwest new mexico, south west colorado and a northeastern region of the navajo nation.
$7,051
Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut · Windsor, CT · 2025
Expand hands-on electronics and amateur radio classes for youth by adding hands on courses and related instructional materials.
$7,008
The Museum of Information Explosion · Huntsville, AL · 2024
#1587 purchase new equipment to upgrade the museum hamshack, enhancing its functionality.
$7,000
Butler County Amateur Fm Association · Evans City, PA · 2025
Replacing an aging repeater duplexer so the system can run properly and reach more users, including handheld stations.
$7,000
Parents of 1776 Organization · San Ramon, CA · 2025
Upgrade a sailboats radio equipment and continue stem education involving amateur radio.
$6,995
Central Arkansas Radio Emergency Net · Little Rock, AR · 2023
Adding backup for longer term power outages at their main hub on shinall mountain.
$6,723
West Central Louisiana Amateur Radio Club · Leesville, LA · 2025
Repair and upgrade storm-damaged amateur radio infrastructure to restore local communications and support emergency and community use.
$6,650
Hancock County Esda Support Association · Carthage, IL · 2024
#1533 enhance emergency communication capabilities by acquiring portable hf, vhf, and uhf go boxes.
$6,361
The Board of Education of School District No 36 (Surrey) · 2024
#1536 creates pota go boxes to establish new amateur radio clubs at schools within the district.
$6,300
Illini Solar Car · Urbana, IL · 2022
Replace old broken amateur radio equipment being used in a solar car race.
$6,200
North Middle School · Joplin, MO · 2024
#1455 upgrade equipment for middle school radio club including a dmr repeater and related equipment.
$6,145
West Seneca Christian School · West Seneca, NY · 2025
Build a school amateur radio station that gets students on the air, supports steam learning, and encourages new young operators through hands-on activities and licensing support.
$5,766
Illinois Space Society · Urbana, IL · 2025
Design and build a portable, high performance ground station for tracking and communicating with high altitude student rocket flights.
$5,500
Fondation Open Collective Europe (On Behalf of Paredn - Philippine Amateur · 2025
Expansion of paredn's winlink and bbs gateway network in the philippines to improve digital emergency communications.
$5,360
Kay County Amateur Radio Club (Kcarc) · Ponca City, OK · 2022
Purchase various equipment for classes and outreach.
$5,237
4-H Clubs & Affiliated 4-H Organizations · Escondido, CA · 2023
Provide the materials needed for an immersive learn-by-doing project experience for approximately 18 youth aged 7 to 16 who are currently participating in this year's electricity and electronics project.
$5,174
Lehi Amateur Radio Club · Lehi, UT · 2025
Build a new repeater site in cedar valley that restores reliable repeater coverage to the area.
$5,141
Seckman Middle School · Imperial, MO · 2022
Provide circuit and electronics instructions with soldering kits and radio direction and range finding or foxhunting activities at a middle school.
$5,027
Elko County School District · Spring Creek, NV · 2022
Provide books, soldering stations, kits, and antenna building supplies in support of an amateur radio class being offered as an elective to 7th and 8th grade students at spring creek middle school in spring creek, nevad… read allProvide books, soldering stations, kits, and antenna building supplies in support of an amateur radio class being offered as an elective to 7th and 8th grade students at spring creek middle school in spring creek, nevada. less
$5,026
Regents of University of Michigan · Dearborn, MI · 2022
Repair a repeater, install an outlet, digitize club documents, and get a vhf receiver for a balloon tracking program.
$5,000
The Innovation School · Bismarck, ND · 2025
Give middle school students hands on experience with amateur radio and sdrs through project based learning.
$5,000
Contest University Inc (Ctu) · West Middlesex, PA · 2024
#1523 purchases a/v equipment to improve the quality of training classes and events.
$5,000
Friends of Science East · Shoreham, NY · 2024
Support in nikola tesla's only remaining lab.
$5,000
Sweet Dreams for Randolph County Kids · Winchester, IN · 2024
#1336 promote stem and amateur radio among underserved students in indiana.
$5,000
Navajo Technical University · Crownpoint, NM · 2022
Fund start up equipment for a new club at navajo technical university. Equipment will be used in a wireless communication course and by the club.
$5,000
Randolph Amateur Radio Club · Ridgeville, IN · 2022
Provide amateur radio classes at local schools.
$4,560
Mercatus Center · Arlington, VA · 2022
Inspired from tubesat/cubesat by the interorbital systems, a 1u cubesat will be developed, which will them be launched to the stratosphere and suborbital space.
$4,500
Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (Amsat) · Washington, DC · 2025
Create a free, open-access coloring book that introduces students to how satellites support daily life and communications, including amateur radio.
$4,500
North Middle School Radio Club · Joplin, MO · 2023
Create an all-band and all-mode hf radio station for the north middle school radio club.
$4,400
Jacksonville Range Association · Jacksonville, FL · 2023
Build a portable communications system.
$4,304
Amateur Radio Club Ua · Tucson, AZ · 2023
Provide loaner radios to new members and equipment for experimentation with digital modes.
$4,304
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Provide loaner radios to new members and equipment for experimentation with digital modes.
$4,184
Lehi Amateur Radio Club · Lehi, UT · 2022
Move a repeater to a more suitable site 2.5 miles to the west on eagle mountain, and link this repeater to the larc repeater system permanently, including being able to provide echo link and allstar network access.
$4,095
Perryville High School · Perryville, MD · 2022
Create an opportunity for high school students to better understand fundamental radio communication and its dependencies by creating radio communication kits.
$4,000
K5utd Amateur Radio Club With a Fiscal Sponsorship From the Richardson Wire · Richardson, TX · 2024
#1590 modernize the club's satellite station by upgrading the transceiver and antennas to address performance issues and enhance satellite telemetry research support.
$4,000
Pierce County Amateur Radio Communication Services · Tacoma, WA · 2023
Build go kits that can be used for emergency communication and community outreach.
$3,959
Lehi Amateur Radio Club · Lehi, UT · 2023
Repairs to underground conduit for repeater
$3,800
Grand Valley State University (W8gvu Fox Hunt) · Grand Rapids, MI · 2023
Introduce college students (alongside staff) to the amateur radio hobby through an engaging and exciting experience. As a result, this project will build technical skills and showcase the relationship between amateur ra… read allIntroduce college students (alongside staff) to the amateur radio hobby through an engaging and exciting experience. As a result, this project will build technical skills and showcase the relationship between amateur radio, and a career in rf/electrical engineering as a whole. less
$3,500
Case Amateur Radio Club of Case Western Reserve University W8edu · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Provide materials and lab support for undergraduate engineering senior projects focused on amateur radio research and experimentation, with results released openly.
$3,500
Case Amateur Radio Club of Case Western Reserve University W8edu · Cleveland, OH · 2025
Funds senior projects related to radio communications for engineering students.
$3,500
Yavapai Amateur Radio Club · Prescott, AZ · 2023
Transition to the laurel testing program. Implement adult testing sessions by offering electronic testing.
$3,350
Porter County Amateur Radio Club · Valparaiso, IN · 2025
Additional funds to upgrade a radio for the communications trailer project.
$3,303
Battiest Public Schools · Battiest, OK · 2025
Equipment for students and community members in rural oklahoma can learn radio basics, earn licenses, and practice communication skills for education and local emergency readiness.
$3,138
School District 64 Fernwood Elementary · 2022
Install a hf station in an elementary school for educational purposes.
$3,000
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Funds for engineering senior projects.
$3,000
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH · 2022
To support undergraduate engineering and physics students' senior projects which directly involve amateur radio and club activities.
$2,700
Hot Springs Amateur Radio Club · Hot Springs, SD · 2024
#1565 establish a youth licensing sponsorship and mentorship program to cover costs and bolster engagement in rural western south dakota.