A digital non-Foster radio approach is proposed to mitigate Wheeler-Chu limits of electrically-small antennas, to significantly reduce energy consumption by using the VHF band, where radio propagation losses below 200 MHz are 100 times less than losses above 2 GHz. Operation at lower frequency could greatly extend lifetimes of small low-power Internet-of-Things devices. Unfortunately, physical size constraints have hindered utilization of VHF band, where even a 200 MHz half-wave dipole is an unwieldy 0.75 m. However, recent digital non-Foster methods could overcome these limits. Therefore, a digital non-Foster radio architecture is presented for small IoT devices in energy-efficient VHF bands.