On 7/18/19 21:25, Gavin Rogers wrote:
On 19/07/2019 12:19 pm, Phil Karn wrote:
Like the rest of the amateur community, all of you will have the opportunity to apply for grants and do good things for amateur radio with them.
I don't know much about US-registered charities and tax law, but will this include amateurs and clubs located outside of the US?
Sure. We'd like to cast the net as widely as possible for worthy grant recipients. Doesn't matter where they are in the world, as long as the purpose is consistent with our charter, which is to benefit amateur digital radio and related development. That's a worldwide activity.
I suppose US legal restrictions on dealing with certain "pariah" countries might come into play (e.g., North Korea) but that's a very short list and there isn't much ham radio in them anyway.
We're already thinking about things like:
Educational grants to students who are hams;
Existing amateur radio 501(c)(3) organizations;
Development of *freely available* technology: hardware, software, protocols, etc
Field trials, demonstrations, pilot projects, educational outreach, etc;
This list is NOT exhaustive by any means, and in fact we'll be looking for good ideas from anyone who has them. We want to be as transparent about this as possible.
Again, though we might have been able to establish a *personal* property claim over network 44, we all quickly decided to not open that can of worms and instead sign everything over to the ARDC. Face it, given who we are we'd probably just spend the money on ham radio development ourselves. This is a much better way to do it.
73, Phil