E-Mail Forwarding for Hams

 Why would you want yet another e-mail address?

Do you have a long, complicated, or difficult to remember e-mail address? Are you some poor sod on Compuserve where your username is a 10-digit number? Do you want a short, easy to remember e-mail address to give to friends, family, and fellow hams?

Then you need an e-mail forwarding address!

But how does it work? An e-mail forwarding address is not a regular e-mail account. All it does is redirect incoming mail to another address, e.g., your regular e-mail account. For example, k4gnv@arrl.net is a forwarding address. All mail sent to k4gnv@arrl.net will immediately be forwarded to the regular mail account at gars@gator.net. This would be more useful if your regular mail account was 927948.2928@compuserve.com or phrodo.bigglesworth@gnv.genericisp.net. But you get the picture.

If you are an Amateur Radio Relay League member...

WWW Method

  1. Go to the ARRL Members Only Web Site.
  2. Register for the members-only area. You will need your callsign, membership number (on the mailing label of QST) and a password to access the ARRL members-only area.
  3. After you are registered, go to the membership data modification form.
  4. In the space labeled "Email", input the e-mail address you normally receive mail.
  5. Check the box by "Set [your callsign]@arrl.net as an alias for the listed e-mail address."
  6. Click the "Submit modification" button at the bottom of the page when you are finished.
  7. You will receive an e-mail confirming the forwarding has been established.
  8. Your e-mail address will be your callsign "@arrl.net", e.g., k4gnv@arrl.net.

E-Mail Method

  1. Send e-mail to registration@arrl.net.
  2. Include your callsign, membership number (on the mailing label of QST), and the address you want your mail forwarded.
  3. You will receive an e-mail confirming the forwarding has been established.
  4. Your e-mail address will be your callsign "@arrl.net", e.g., k4gnv@arrl.net.
Revised: 16 June 1999

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