[HamGateMDE] Quick AMPR Portal Instructions

[Charles J. Hargrove]

Finding useful how-to documents on the AMPR portal is quite difficult.
Until they get their act together, use these simple steps to register
and set up your entries on the 44net AMPR portal. Contact me as needed.


New ARDC portal.ampr.org How-To

Registering for a new user account:
https://portal.ampr.org/register/step-one

Use your callsign as your username.
You will be asked to verify your callsign, email address, mailing 
address  and cellphone number.

Your "subdomain" under .ampr.org is your callsign.

To request an allocation in your state, choose the appropriate link:
MA - https://portal.ampr.org/ipv4/networks/request/assignment/233
NH - https://portal.ampr.org/ipv4/networks/request/assignment/145
VT - https://portal.ampr.org/ipv4/networks/request/assignment/148
PA - https://portal.ampr.org/ipv4/networks/request/assignment/198
MD - https://portal.ampr.org/ipv4/networks/request/assignment/204
NJ - https://portal.ampr.org/ipv4/networks/request/assignment/48
DE - https://portal.ampr.org/ipv4/networks/request/assignment/146
NY - https://portal.ampr.org/ipv4/networks/request/assignment/49
CT - https://portal.ampr.org/ipv4/networks/request/assignment/147
RI - https://portal.ampr.org/ipv4/networks/request/assignment/144
ME - https://portal.ampr.org/ipv4/networks/request/assignment/149

Remember to put your email in the notes. When I see the request, I will be
in contact with you ASAP and we can get things going. If you are going to
be acting as your own gateway, then you will need to enter that information
on the portal under "Networks" and then "My gateways". If your local state
HamGate will act as your VPN gateway, then I will handle it from my end
after you go into your subnet allocation, create and then send me the
Unique ID field that is generated.

Either way, wWe will still need to talk about your DNS entries before
you set them up so that proper routing can occur, VPN or not.


Login to your existing account
https://portal.ampr.org/login

To claim your DNS callsign/subdomain:
https://portal.ampr.org/subdomains
Click the "Request a subdomain" button.
On the next page select "ampr.org" as the main domain and enter your 
callsign as the subdomain you wish to create. When you click the "Create 
request" button, this will create a ticket requesting creation of the 
subdomain. Once approved, your subdomain will be created and 
(importantly) any existing DNS records that may already under the 
subdomain will be automatically pulled in.

To create your new DNS Records:
Under https://portal.ampr.org/subdomains, locate your callsign subdomain 
and click on the "Actions" icon. Then click the "Add a resource record" 
icon for each DNS record item needed. DNS records that you can create are:
A
AAAA (for IPv6 records in the future)
CNAME
DNSKEY
DS
LOC
MX
NS
PTR
RP
SRV
TXT

As always, feel free to call me any evening at 917-991-0356 (except 
weekly nets Mondays 8-9PM).

-- 
Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV
NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord.

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