From K6FN, Our Current Conference Owner
Our coffee shop founder, Richard KB4SVP, Forever known as Mr Coffee, started this small echolink group in 2010 with the idea of having a good place for like minded Christian hams to gather and have good conversations.
At that time Richard lived in Cummins GA in the winter and Nova Scotia, Canada in the summer so he ran the echolink proxy on the PC located where he was residing.
The proxy had the bad issue of dropping all the time then everyone had to reconnect.
In Dec 2019, Richard finally made the decision that he needed to take a step back and to finally turn the Coffee shop over to Jerry K6FN, so on 2 DEC 2019 it officially became Jerry’s!
Richard and Jerry had discussed this transition for 2 years prior and now he is very happy of what we have built it into.
The conference server is now hosted in a datacenter where loss of connectivity is almost non-exsistent. This website was developed shortly after. Also member access to information in the logger database as added.
We are the pride of Echolink and have around 250 members world wide.
Jerry knew right off that this needed to be a team effort so he reached out to NV5B-Roger, WQ1I-Carson, KK4WVO-Paula and N9RFO-Stan. To join the team.
Without these great folks we could not make this work.
A bit of history- Some of the 1st members to join Richard were :
ZL2ADR – Andy, 2-1-2010
KJ4UTS – Brandon, 2-1-2010
9M2CW – Chin, 2-1-2010
K3TEL- Arnold, 2-1-2010
N7LMV- Jerry, 2-1-2010
N9ZIV -Dwyane, 2-1-2010
K6FN Jerry, 6-19-2010
KB6YYT, Joe 8-25-2010
G6GUD Marian 8-6-2010
M3YEU Tugboat Jim 9-1-2010
WA4CJX Bruce 12-24-2010
and on it went.
Jerry is so proud of our growing membership as we continue to increase our numbers.