[amsat-bb] ORI receives half million dollar grant, and it's only the first.

[Joseph Armbruster]

Bruce,

Wowzers!  That's a pile of money and it's kind of difficult for me to piece
this together... but, whenever such a large amount of $ is involved, I
always like to trace it.  I'm digging through all this trying to figure out
where the heck ARDC could come up with a metric (or english) pile of money
like that to distribute in a grant and so-far, i've determined:

1)  IANA designated 44/8 for "AMPRNET Amature Radio Experiment Net", back
in the day...
ref:  https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc790

2)  Via some legal (questionable?) wizardry, ARDC was able to stake a claim
to 100% of 44/8, and sell off IPs that were designated for Amateur Radio
Experiment Net
ref:
https://www.ampr.org/wp-content/uploads/Courtesy-Notice-to-AG-Signed-ARDC.pdf

3) Robert McGwier (N4HY) is on the "2020 Grants Advisory Committee" for
ARDC:
ref: https://www.ampr.org/giving/

4) And he's also involved with ORI:
ref:
https://openresearch.institute/public/mailing-lists/ground-station/ground-station/2018-April/000087.html

5) ORI ends up with a massive grant!

I do admit.... this is incredible work!  I have a few questions about
RFC790 and the ownership of those IPs.  Can you explain to everyone on the
-bb, how the living heck ARDC had the legal right to ownership to all of
those IPs.

One thing is quite obvious from all of this... Namely, I need to quit my
job and come work with you all of you!

Joseph Armbruster
KJ4JIO


On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 8:41 PM Bruce Perens via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> This is just part of a complete plan to provide for the space and ground
> needs of amateur radio. Thus, you can expect to see additional grants on
> this scale. ORI remains an AMSAT-Affiliated organization, and the
> participation of AMSAT and its members is always welcome.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Bruce
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 4:04 PM Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ARDC awarded ORI $500,000 to do major development on the phase 4 ground
> > digital communications terminal. ORI has assembled a tremendous
> engineering
> > team to do this work.
> >
> > Congratulations to ORI.  I was informed the check is in the mail. This is
> > the largest grant ARDC has given to date.  ORI was previously awarded
> large
> > grants by the ARRL foundation and the Yasme foundation to support the
> work.
> >
> > 73s
> > Bob
> > N4HY
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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