ADRCS Grant Application Accepted by ARDC, will Advance IP400 Project

June 9, 2025The Alberta Digital Radio Communications Society (ADRCS) has announced that its grant to advance their IP400 Network Project has been approved by ARDC. ADRCS expects to begin work this coming fall.

“This grant will ensure that we can continue our development activity and bring the project goals to fruition”, says Martin Alcock, VE6VH, Chief Technology Officer of the Society and project founder. “It will enable us to recruit top-notch personnel that would have normally been out of our reach”.

The IP400 Project aims to deliver a data communications system capable of 100 kbps minimum data speeds. Initial hardware in the form of Raspberry Pi Zero HAT transceivers were demoed at Hamvention. To learn more about the project, join the Groups.io list, or visit the project home page. Source code is available on GitHub.

Source: ADRCS open_in_new

Hamword Winlink Games Enters Fourth Year

June 8, 2025Hamword has completed three years serving hams a daily word game that is similar to the popular Wordle guessing game. Hamword takes place over Winlink which provides amateur radio operators with an opportunity to maintain brain health and practice their Winlink communication skills.

Nearly 500 hams have played over 11,000 games over the last three years.

You can join the fun by sending a five-letter word to the Winlink tactical callsign HAMWORD. You do not have to send messages using your radio connection. Winlink messages can be transferred over the Internet using the Telnet interface.

More information about Hamword and how to play is available on the Hamword website.

Source: Hamword open_in_new