[Dxbase] Pager/TXT gateway

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Dougherty (W2IRT)" <w2irt at nac.net>
To: "DX Base Mailing List" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 12:16 AM
Subject: [Dxbase] Pager/TXT gateway


> Got a question for the assembled braintrust. As I was sitting around this 
> afternoon waiting for the TJ3 station to grace SSB with his presence, I was 
> wishing there were a way to get TXT or e-mail notification of all-time new 
> spots on my cellphone. Essentially, I already have an amazingly good filter 
> set established, both through my AR cluster connection's settings on a 
> coarse level and through DXBase for fine.
> 
> What I'd really like to see is a subset of "priority" level spots that get 
> escalated to urgent status and are beamed out to a cell or pager. Anybody 
> know of a way of doing this? Seems kids and executives are swearing by TXT 
> messaging -- there's gotta be a way of doing this for DX spotting! Any ideas?
> 
> 
Pete
It seems to me that there was a system a few years back that did that.
But I haven't seen anything like it in a while.
When on the Fire Dept. I used a program to page people and it sent text messages.
But there wasn't a way to link it with another program such as DXB.

I use a cell phone so rarely although I carry it.
If it rang...I'd probably have a heart attack. LOL