There's another way to do this. 30+ years ago I added an MX record for my callsign to the ampr.org DNS. Back then Brian Kantor was the admin out of UCSD. He passed several years ago and I'm not sure who's running it now. The DNS is intended to resolve ampr.org domains to IPs on AMPRNET (not Internet), but they are bridged so it doesn't matter.<p><a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/11/24/0051236/brian-kantor-internet-and-amprnet-pioneer-wb6cyt-dies" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/11/24/0051236/brian-kanto...</a><p>Anyway, my mail server still gets mail to (anything)@(my call).ampr.org. Of course it's mostly spam.<p><a href="https://www.ardc.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ardc.net</a>
I'm strongly inclined not to trust this without more info on who is behind it and how well secured their infrastructure is.<p>As the center of online identity, email is incredibly vulnerable -- even more so than access to a person's phone number. Don't use email by anyone you can't trust to respect your privacy and especially to keep it safe from malicious, capable third party threat agents.
I love this kind of thing and massively encourage the (seemingly very young!) operator to keep their desire to provide useful and interesting stuff for their community. People who do that carry on their crafts and interests to a new generation and are to be applauded.<p>One thing I'd add that's slightly less positive is.. well, running email infrastructure is a huge PITA when it goes wrong. Be careful!
Neat, but I wish there were more information. I'm an active ham but curious about how much space I get, are my emails encrypted or readable on the server, etc.
Nice idea! However, I can't seem to access the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which are required to be agreed to in order to sign up. (Yes, I am one of the ~12 people in the world who actually read those.) Are these available anywhere?
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How is this better than the arrl.net forwarding service? <a href="http://www.arrl.org/member-support" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.arrl.org/member-support</a>
I recently setup a new domain with a wildcard forwarder (e.g. *@newdomain -> my real email). I hand out specific names to companies that want emails, and if they bug me I just blackhole that address.<p>It has worked well so far, though it might break down eventually if the domain gets spammed? Not sure.<p>Anyways, the domain I used has a 5-character TLD, and some sites have rejected it for that reason. Just a word of warning that >3 char TLDs might not be universally useful.<p>Those sites probably store passwords in plaintext too.
I don't want to discourage your enthusiasm but please think carefully about this.<p>It might be a fun project now but let me say a few things.<p>What's going to happen in a year or two when you lose interest or get too busy with other things? I'm sure you give no guarantees so you have no real obligation but nobody likes to disappoint people.<p>What's going to happen when something stops working while you're away for a long weekend and someone foolish enough to use this as their primary email address is waiting for something important?<p>I've done vaguely similar things on a small scale for friends but I will never host mailboxes again. They are a PITA. They tend to grow. Some IMAP implementations can be heavy on resources. Migration can be a pain if you want to move to another server.<p>I'll happily to do email forwarding for friends at a hobby level but not be responsible for storing mail. It's just not worth the trouble.<p>Free is not sustainable if it gets popular.<p>With that out the way, welcome to ham radio. I've been a ham since I was 14 and that was over 50 years ago :) My interest and activity level have fluctuated over the years but I still do some digital modes on HF and like to listen around with an SDR.
Neat, I guess - but I just registered "my call sign.com" and pointed the MX record to my primary domain (my last name).<p>I'm working on another ham-related software project. Do you have an automated way of verifying licenses?<p>I was thinking of making someone add a string to the end of their qrz profile, but I'd like something a little more elegant.<p>-W1ADV
I'm not a ham operator, though I debated it a few years ago, I just don't even know where to start, and have zero equipment. I wonder if a better email would be to match your call sign, I assume you have to announce it when communicating with new people? Or am I making a bad assumption, even so, that would maybe make it much easier for someone to figure out how to get to you via email.
I can register mycallsign.tld for any number of TLD’s, .us, .eu, .radio…and $50/year for hosting it on Fastmail. It’s fully within my control.<p>But realistically, you can also register mycallsign@gmail.com and have an easy to use email for free.
Makes me wonder-- is there a simple forum or something where only Ham Radio operators can sign up and post stuff?<p>It'd be neat if the 2nd step to signup was to get on and verbally ask one of the other operators to confirm your account. :)