Winlink Accounts...
...are created with a client program. You can not create one here.
We require
- A valid amateur radio license, or
- a license from a participating government service or agency. Ship station, marine or general radiotelephone licenses DO NOT qualify.
How To Get an Account
- Download, install and configure any client software. We suggest Winlink Express. Study its help about installation and use.
- If using Winlink Express, with an internet connection fill out the form presented on first startup after installation. See the help article "Basic Configuration" for guidance. Be sure to include a password and password recovery address. Click 'Update'. Winlink Express makes the process easy. Your account is created!
If you use a different program than Winlink Express:
- Follow the program's help or instructions to configure it for your callsign and use. Connect with the system (sending a message via Telnet is okay) to create your account. Do not use a password on your first connection. Your radio email address is YOURCALL@winlink.org. A message containing your password will be sent to your account. Retrieve it with a second connection. After retrieving your password, secure login will now be enforced by the CMS, so be sure to set your password in your client program.
To recover your password and log into your account on this site:
- At any time, use the recovery form [My Account] to have a password re-sent to your account or password recovery address. Retrieve it using the appropriate program.
- Use your callsign as your username, and password to log in here. You can change your password once you're logged in.
- Be sure to edit your account settings here and set a password recovery address!
Winlink accounts stay alive only with client program use via radio or telnet connections only; Webmail and other accesses don't count!. Accounts off-air for 400 days are automatically purged. Use it or lose it!
Amateur Radio Safety Foundation, Inc.
Winlink Global Radio Email®️ is an all-volunteer project of the Amateur Radio Safety Foundation, Inc. (ARSFI), a non-profit public benefit corporation with no beneficial owners.
Please give to ARSFI if you use Winlink radio email or correspond regularly with someone who does. By donating $25 each year you will do your part to improve this system and keep it running. Donations are tax-deductible by most US federal taxpayers. This is the best way to say "thank you" to Winlink volunteers! You can also purchase a registration key for your Winlink Express software. That's different than a donation! And is another way to contribute.
WANTED:
Software Developers
The Winlink Development Team is looking for talented software developers who have expertise in Digital Signal Processing, VB, C#, C, C++ with Windows, dot-Net Core, OSX, iOS, Android, with Open-Source Project Management, Git and AWS experience. We need developers who can move our programs to new platforms and environments, keep pace with security standards, and to help innovate for the future. If you have volunteer time, are willing to help, work well with others and would like to join an accomplished team, please contact Tom, KA6IQA
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
Steve Waterman, K4CJX
Tom Lafleur, KA6IQA
Lor Kutchins, W3QA
Ross Merlin, WA2WDT
Oliver Dully, K6OLI
Chris Steinhardt, KD9LF
Neil Hughes, VE1YZ
Scott Miller, K6SKM
Mike Burton, XE2/N6KZB
Jonathan Remba, XE1BRX
Greg Kruckewitt, KG6SJT
Mooneer Salem, K6AQ
Kevin Hedgepeth, NB7O
Tom Whiteside, N5TW
Gerhard Kmet, OE3ZK (SK)
Scott Currie, NS7C
Thomas Noel, KF7RSF
David Ouellette, WB8MWG
Dan Midyett, KA4CAH
John Wiseman, G8BPQ
Van Malan, NH7IT
Contacts
Users and Gateway Sysops, tech support and help: Click this link
Internet mail server admins, server errors and routing issues: POSTMASTER at winlink.org
Web site errors and issues only, please: WEBMASTER at winlink.org
Official Business: Steve Waterman, K4CJX, Winlink Administrator
Outstanding Volunteers
The Winlink system is run entirely by volunteers. Those called Gateway Station Sysops, who support and run over a thousand stations around the world, are special. They are essential for providing the radio network that allows us to use Winlink radio email. Without them, there is no Winlink. If you use Winlink radio email, make sure to thank your sysops by sending them an email to their RMSCALLSIGN-at-winlink.org address.You can find their contact information by mousing over their call sign on the RMS List tab here.
Apart from the Gateway Station Sysops and Development Team, there are other volunteers that run e-mail groups and tutorials, manage user accounts, register software, update the network's assets and catalogs, test and debug products, and independently write software. They all work together to keep the Winlink system running smoothly. We owe a big thank you to all the hardworking volunteers, as well as the authors and developers who contribute to the Winlink system. Some deserve exceptional praise. Please thank them when you can:
Gordon Gibby, KX4Z
Jim Corenman, KE6RK
Georges Auberger, WH6AZ
Jose Alberto Nieto Ros, EA6HVK
Don Felgenhauer, K7BFL
David W. Barrow III, N9UNR
Bill Kuechler, N9ACQ
Bud Thompson, N0IA
The Platinum Club
Volunteer Gateway Sysops on-air in 2000, and on-air today!
- Martin Spreng, HB9AK
- Grady Williams, K6IXA (SK)
- 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.