2024-02-25T14:48:10Z 2023-12-31 990EZ 2023-01-01 834513134 RADIO SCOUTING INC RADI 4074964496 145 East Story Road Winter Garden FL 34787 Kenneth Lyons President 4074964496 2024-01-10 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X X www.RadioScouting.US X X 88602 X 88602 88602 320 37 78208 78565 10037 22516 32553 X 7016 17053 0 0 15500 15500 22516 32553 22516 32553 Radio Scouting, Inc. It shall be our purpose to further the exchange of information and cooperation between the public and scouting, to promote radio knowledge, youth activities, fraternalism, individual operating efficiency, and to conduct programs and activities as to advance the general interest and welfare of Amateur Radio and Scouting in the community. WB4SA is the amateur radio station and club of the Boy Scouts of America, Central Florida Council. KB5SA is the amateur radio station and club for scouting in Northwest Louisiana. N4RSI is the amateur radio station and club for scouting in Tampa, Florida, GTBAC. We are helping support Radio Scouting STEM programs for W1PTG Pilipinas Testing Group & DX1MC Radio Scouting Philippines - Manila Council through a one-time unusual grant from ARDC. With one director on-site to personally mange that STEM education project. WB4SA Provide a free radio to newly licensed scouting youth. About a dozen per year are given out to reward them for passing the the FCC license test. 320 Manila Council Amateur Radio Club (MCS-ARC), oldest scouting council in the Philippines. Provide a mobile STEM vehicle, starlink internet and radios for youth to learn. About 20k council youth will be impacted as the program builds out. This grant and program was just created/awarded in December and should complete during 2024. 85320 X 70507 WB4SA Provide monthly/quarterly STEM classes and demonstrations at scouting events in Florida. This is the main group for Central Florida Council and provides STEM education to over 10,000 youth each year. from a pool of 26k council youth. Nearly 8,000 youth participate in our JOTA weekends every October. Several dozen Radio Merit Badges awarded nearly every quarter. We are currently working to get a permanent STEM building at camp 4A so that we can offer even more education in more fields, including weather, astronomy, electronics, 3D printing. 7465 KB5SA Provide quarterly STEM classes and demonstrations at scouting events in North West Louisiana for 3k youth in council. They did 16 Scoutnets (Radio hamnet on the air) 200 scouts at the 2023 JOTA event. This group is just getting started and working on their permanent facility at the local council camp. 0 271 78563 Dean DeLong Secretary 3.00 0 0 0 Larry Schnaudigel Treasurer 20.00 0 0 0 Kenneth Lyons President 20.00 0 0 0 Nicholas Butler Vice President 5.00 0 0 0 Jason McDonald N4RSI Club President 20.00 0 0 0 Billy Netherland KB5SA Club President 20.00 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false FL Kenneth Lyons 145 East Story Road Winter Garden FL 34787 4074966694 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE 0 NONE 0 true X 0 0 0 0 1500 667 1202 8968 3282 15619 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1500 667 1202 8968 3282 15619 15619 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15619 X 1.00000 0.00000 Part II, Line 10 We had an unusual grant for 2022 ($8k) and 2023 ($85k), the 2023 one put us over the 990N limit. Part I, Line 10 12x QRZ-1 radios from Gigaparts to give to US Scouts that get licensed (Free radio for scouts program) Part I, Line 16 Entirely Volunteer organization. We have no paid staff, no fundraising or even admin offices. *All* expenses go directly to funding the program classroom materials (workbooks, STEM demonstrations), acquiring asset equipment (radios, antennas, cables, computers, ham tech, cubesat demos) and it's consumables (paper forms, license tests, batteries, one-time balloon launches, or even one-use table cloths during monthly outdoor fieldday type events). Orlando WB4SA Income: 2923.63 Expenses: 7785.77 EOY: 2242.88 cash Louisiana KB5SA Income: 300 Expenses: 271.8 EOY: 28.2 Tampa N4RSI Income: 85320 Expenses: 70507.65 EOY: 14782.35 (Unusual Grant, ARDC) 70507 expense ARDC grant being used for emcom vehicle, starlink equip, dozens of radios and solar project. 100% program expenses, 0% fund-raising, 0% administrative overhead. Part I, Line 8 We had an unusual grant of 85,320 from ARDC in late 2023. Part II, Line 24 ASSETS WB4SA 60ft Mobile Tower Trailer, dozen WiFi foxes, dozen morse code practice keys, 3 dozen batteries, GeoCron Atlas, 54in 4k TV N4RSI Emcom truck, 3x starlink, dozens of HT Radios, half dozen HF radios. KB5SA 2 pvc Yagis, couple morse code practice keys