The Yasme Foundation announced a dozen grants in
late December to support a variety of amateur radio activities, both on and off
the air.
According to the ARRL, recipients include ARISS, the Amateur Radio on
the International Space Station program; the ARRL Teachers Institute; the
Reverse Beacon Network; scholarships through the ARRL Foundation and the
Foundation for Amateur Radio; the Youngsters on the Air program in Europe, the
Northern California DX Foundation's beacon project; the Haiti Amateur Radio
Club; 4U1ITU, the amateur station at the International Telecommunication Union
headquarters in Genva, Switzerland; the 2018 World Radiosport Team Championship
(WRTC); Ethiopian Amateur Radio Society club station ET3AA; the World Wide
Radio Operators Foundation and Dokufunk, the Research and Documentation Center
for the History of Radio Communications and the Electronic Media in Vienna,
Austria. The amounts of the individual grants were not disclosed.
