Nick (Alatar the Blue)<p>For anyone who may not be aware. I volunteer with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://defcon.social/@HamRadioVillage" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>HamRadioVillage</span></a></span> (<a href="https://hamvillage.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://hamvillage.org/</a>).</p><p>Our mission is to deliver high-quality and innovate amateur radio related educational content, hands-on experiences, and license testing sessions online and in-person through events. We believe that the more people know about amateur radio, the more safe, secure, functional, and innovative our wireless products, services, and experiments will be.</p><p>Our team of dedicated volunteers is responsible for generating all new research, giving talks and demonstrations at events, building and testing experiments, as well as offering support to the general ham radio community.</p><p>One of the bigger events we support is <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/defcon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defcon</span></a> . Each year we bring in people to teach ham radio concepts and administer free licensing exams. We share the love of <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hamradio</span></a> with the <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hacker</span></a> community. At Defcon alone we have over 10,000 people flow through our village area, and administer the largest single-weekend testing session in the country each year - larger than <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/hamcation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hamcation</span></a> and <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/hamvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hamvention</span></a> by significant margins.</p><p>Of course, this takes money. In the past 2 years we have been fortunate enough to be able to accept money from ARDC to help defray costs, but unfortunately that leaves us with a paperwork problem with the IRS. To maintain 501c3 educational status, we need to have a large pool of small donors - which is where the appeal here comes in. If you can spare a few dollars, we would appreciate helping to spread the love of <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/amateurradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amateurradio</span></a> to like-minded people everywhere. You can donate one time in any increment through our <a href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/b7dd64da-d86a-423e-9507-7bb5a82bc38f" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Zeffy link</a>, and 100% of what you donate goes to the organization - even $5 will help. Alternatively, you can <a href="https://hamvillage.org/membership.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">become a member</a> and come enjoy <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/shenanigans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shenanigans</span></a> on the air with us.</p><p>Either way, we'd love to see you follow our Mastodon page and/or join our <a href="https://discord.gg/hrv" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Discord server</a>.</p><p>Please, help us help the community.</p><p>Tags (because that's a thing): <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/stem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stem</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/amateurradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amateurradio</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/hamradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hamradio</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/rfshenanigans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rfshenanigans</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/cantstopthesignal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cantstopthesignal</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/getradioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>getradioactive</span></a></p>