ARRL Grassroots Campaign to Codify US Hams Antenna Rights

September 22, 2025ARRL has launched a campaign to promote the passage of US legislation that would prevent antenna restrictions often imposed by homeowners’ associations.

The bipartisan bills — H.R.1094 in the House and S.459 in the Senate — are designed to prevent restrictive homeowners’ association (HOA) rules that currently prohibit or severely limit the installation of amateur radio antennas, even when such antennas are hidden in trees, placed in attics, mounted on vehicles, or look like flagpoles.

ARRL is asking all US based hams to take part in a letter writing campaign to their congressional representatives in both the House and Senate. Tools are available to assist with the campaign which includes pre-written letters.

More information is available on the ARRL website.

Source: ARRL open_in_new ARRL Legislation HOA

IP400 Project Publishes Roadmap

September 18, 2025During a presentation by Garvin (VE6GFC) at Zero Retries Digital Conference, ADRCS communicated a project plan for the IP400 Project.

Highlights of upcoming phases include:

• Increasing data speeds from 600Kb/s to 2.5Mb/s
• Remote hardware operation
• New form factor for Mini Node II

A design for Next Generation Node Hardware II describes an all-in-one transceiver unit made up of node hardware, a power amplifier, and 9dB gain antenna.

More details are available from the presentation slide deck on the IP400 GitHub space.

About the Alberta Digital Radio Communications Society
Alberta Digital Radio Communications Society (ADRCS) was formed in 2022 to promote the use and develop new technologies using digital communication in Amateur Radio. It is the sponsor of the AREDN network in Western Canada, and the IP400 Project.

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: IP400 Project open_in_new IP400 ADRCS Zero Retries Digital Conference