Intrepid Hams and other curious onlookers.

September 5, 2018

Intrepid Hams and other curious onlookers. I present to you the irrefutable evidence that the late Jim Dixon (WB6NIL) did wish for AllStarLink to live on as detailed below. Not as something controlled by John David McGough and his questionable business practices but as a free and open source system managed by a team put together by the person Jim's best friend Steve RoDgers had chosen to manage both the future and entrust Jim's legacy to.

Behold, I present to you the following:

Announcement to the app_rpt mailing list regarding Jim Dixon's (WB6NIL) passing and the future of AllStarLink:

From: https://bit.ly/2wJhKaf

[App_rpt-users] Jim Dixon's passing, and Allstar Link transition Steve Rodgers steve at rodgers619.com Mon Dec 26 13:58:40 EST 2016

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Hello everyone,

It is with deep regret that my long time friend Jim Dixon passed away on 12/16. I've known Jim since we were teenagers, and our interest in electronics engineering was self-reinforcing for both of us. Jim was a bright and caring individual who really loved socializing with others.

With regard to Allstar Link, Jim did give me access to the servers, and I have been working to transition control to Steve Zingman N4IRS. He will take over management of Allstar Link. We are doing a lot of work behind the scenes to make sure that Allstar Link continues to be as Jim envisioned it.

In the near term, Steve and his team will create a non-profit entity forAllstar Link. Management of Allstar Link is such that it requires a team of individuals all working together to ensure its long term viability. We currently have atransition team in place running the day-to-day operations, node numbers, etc.

Final note: At this time donations to Jim's Paypal account should not be sent to his account since we don't have control over it. We will set up something soon to handle incoming donations,and will let everyone know when it is in place.

Steve WA6ZFT

Steve Zingman's (N4IRS) follow up message:

From: https://bit.ly/2wMIq9k

[App_rpt-users] AllStarLink status Steve Zingman szingman at msgstor.com Tue Dec 27 14:17:35 EST 2016

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As Steve posted yesterday, we lost not only a visionary, but a friend to many. I've had many long telephone conversations with Jim over the last year. We covered many topics including moving app_rpt forward.

I have taken over managing the project to continue Jim's work and keep it evolving. The first steps are to make sure everything stays running. This means among other things the node registration services. Without that for all intents and purposes, the network goes down. New users continue to signup and new nodes are getting assigned. This has to continue.

I have put together a group of people that are working to make sure services stay online. We are working towards having more then 1 person responsible for each task. Once we are comfortable with the tasks involved, we can take on the other needs.

As far as the source code is concerned, I have copied the source to github. This will make changes more visible and allow for submissions to be vetted and included. There will be no changes in the short term. The github repository is at https://github.com/AllStarLink

I will make sure AllStarLink survives and evolves.

73, Steve N4IRS

— “Just say no to world domination”

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