In addition to my day job I also run IT for a 501(c)(3) ham "club" that does amateur radio based public service and emergency communications. Our annual cash donations are about $100. We could never afford an IPv6 allocation or an AS number. I wish we could because I'd love to use some of the AMPRNET space for some of our operations. Our ISP doesn't support IPv6 yet, so I won't even get into that discussion.

While we don't have cash, we frequently get donations in the form of [used] equipment. Our entire network backbone is Cisco. Our radio systems are almost exclusively Motorola public safety grade hardware. Our Internet connection is paid for by a served agency. People are happy to donate their time, services, and hardware to us; just not cash. Saying that not having cash on hand means you don't have the resources to do packet radio is not necessarily true.

-Matt, NM1B

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:44 PM Naslund, Steve <SNaslund@medline.com> wrote:

So, if ARIN allocates a v6 assignment to ARDC how do you plan to use it without a router or BGP. Whether it's v4 or v6 you need to route it somewhere. If you have a PC, you can have a router and if you don't have a PC you probably don't need to worry about any of this. If your club can't afford the address allocation then you are probably in too expensive a hobby. That is one of the cheaper things you need to get to do radio data.

Steven Naslund
Chicago IL

>Yeah because v6 only is the answer plus tour assuming all of these clubs have routers and BGP and the money to get an allocation and ASN....