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Amateur Radio Safety Foundation, Inc.
Winlink is an all-volunteer project of the Amateur Radio Safety Foundation, Inc. (ARSFI), a non-profit public benefit corporation.
If you use Winlink email, or correspond regularly with someone who does, please donate to ARSFI. By giving $25 each year you will do your part to keep this important system running. Donations are tax-deductible by US federal taxpayers. A donation is always the best way to say "thank you" to Winlink volunteers!
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Where Winlink Volunteers Made a Difference
Lives and property saved. Damage mitigated. It's why Winlink volunteers do what they do.
- Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Dolly, Dennis, Jeanne, Ivan, Frances, Charley, Isabel, Sandy
- Slovenian Weather Disaster
- HMS Bounty Rescue
- Haitian Earthquake Disaster
- The Asian Tsunami
- Western US Flood and Fire Relief
- Tenessee Tornado Outbreak 2008
- North Carolina Agency Fiber Optic Cable Failure
- Failure of IntelSat 804
- Indian Coastal Weather Disaster
- Chilean/Peruvian Weather Disaster
- Assisting the US Coast Guard; locating lost and overdue vessels
- Australian Outback Communications
- Assisting NOAA National Weather Service, and their MAROB Program
- Gulf War "The Last Voice from Kuwait"
- Connecting doctors and remote patients during medical missions, and often at sea
Have a story? Please send details. Thanks!
The Winlink Development Team
The Winlink radio email system and software are built, maintained and supported entirely by volunteers.
Victor D. Poor, W5SSM (SK)
Rick Muething, KN6KB
Lee Inman, K0QED
Phil Sherrod, W4PHS
John Wiseman, G8BPQ
Steve Waterman, K4CJX
Tom Lafleur, KA6IQA
Lor Kutchins, W3QA
Neil Hughes, VE1YZ
Don Trotter, VE1DTR
Phil Sutherland, VK6KPS
Scott Miller, K6SKM
Mike Burton, XE2/N6KZB
Kevin Hedgepeth, NB7O
Tom Whiteside, N5TW
Gerhard Kmet, OE3ZK
Michael Kastelic, OE1MCU
Don Moore, KM0R
Contact for all business:
Steve Waterman, K4CJX
Winlink Administrator
Outstanding Volunteers
The entire Winlink system is dedicated to the volunteer Gateway Station Sysops who support and run the thousand-plus stations around the world. Without them, Winlink would not exist. Be sure to write with generous thanks to the sysops who provide your service ([email protected]).
Volunteers attend daily to the Winlink web site, e-mail groups, tutorial groups, nets, user registrations, access rights, RMS servers, catalog and bulletin updates, and much more. The Winlink Team also receives generous technical input and contributions from authors and developers. We thank the following outstanding contributors for their dependable, invaluable, prominent services and superior work products. Bravo!
Don Felgenhauer, K7BFL
David W. Barrow III, N9UNR
Bud Thompson, N0IA
Ron Knaggs, N1GYX (SK)
Rick Frost, K4REF
Bill Kuechler, N9ACQ
Special thanks to:
David Ouellette, WB8MWG
Dan Midyett, KA4CAH
Who expertly administer and maintain the DHS NCC SHARES Winlink Hybrid Radio Email Network.
The 2000-2017 Platinum Club
Gateway Sysops on-air in 2000, and on-air today!
- Martin Spreng, HB9AK
- Grady Williams, K6IXA
- Eric Simmons, KB6YNO
- California Yacht Club Radio Amateur Group, K6CYC, and Eric Oistad, KF6DZT
- Jerry Curry, KL7EDK
- Joel Michello, KQ4ET
- Rudi Wendrinsky, OE4RYC (SK) Operated RMS OE4XBU
- John Burke, W7BO
- San Diego Yacht Club Amateur Radio Group, W6IM, and Rod McLennan, W6MWB
- Bernie Zindell, WG3G
- Earl Leach, WX4J
- Neil Hughes, VE1YZ
- Hannes Enslin, ZS6JDE
Please say "thank you" with a donation to the Amateur Radio Safety Foundation, a non-profit public-benefit corporation.