[OKDXA] Can I get DX Announcements on my phone?

[Kim Elmore]

Can these be filtered such that I get them only from a limited geographic area? I don’t want what amounts to a raw feed from an internet cluster…

73,

Kim N5OP

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

> On Sep 22, 2021, at 9:22 AM, NE5SD - Steve Duskin <ne5sd.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Check out Ham Alert
> 
> Https://hamalert.org
> 
> 73
> 
> -Steve.
> NE5SD
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 8:58 AM Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>> “Back in the day” it was a telephone tree. Then a DX club’s repeater. Then
>> packet clusters. Now it’s internet clusters. The issue for all of us is
>> that HF propagation is remarkably local: Jeff often hears stuff I can’t.
>> Sometime I hear stuff he can’t.
>> 
>> A Slack channel is free and as long as everyone has Slack on their phone,
>> that can send and get messages (spots). Would it get used? Maybe we’d see a
>> positive feedback: the more it’s used, the more it’s used.
>> 
>> Should we give it a try?
>> 
>> 73 & CU in the PILEUPS,
>> 
>> Kim N5OP
>> 
>> "People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as
>> the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
>> 
>>>> On Sep 22, 2021, at 7:31 AM, Jeff Martin <jeffk5we at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Mark,
>>> Well the obvious easy solution would be to have email on your phone.
>> Kim and I briefly discussed setting up a Slack channel. Slack provides an
>> app for your phone. However, I wonder how much use it would actually get,
>> would it be worth the trouble? This email reflector/list really has limited
>> action, would a Slack channel be any different or better? What do you guys
>> think?
>>> 
>>> 73,
>>> Jeff - K5WE
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:
>> okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mark Beckwith
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 6:36 AM
>>> To: Oklahoma DX Association
>>> Subject: [OKDXA] Can I get DX Announcements on my phone?
>>> 
>>> Hey Gents,
>>> 
>>> Stupid Newbie question.  Is there a phone app for these great DX
>>> announcements?  Seems like when I check my email I read about everything
>>> I missed.
>>> 
>>> Do I need to go back to carrying a 2M HT like in the 1980s?
>>> 
>>> 73 - Mark N5OT
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 2021-09-21 8:18 PM, Jeff Martin wrote:
>>>> He is on 24.911 now doing F/H. Pretty weak, but I worked him. Tnx for
>> the
>>>> spot Coy. Have him on 6 bands now, all FT8. Anyone hear him on any other
>>>> mode?
>>>> 73,
>>>> Jeff - K5WE
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:
>> okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>>>> On Behalf Of N5OK
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 7:04 PM
>>>> To: Oklahoma DX Association
>>>> Subject: [OKDXA] 3D2CR
>>>> 
>>>> On 12M FT8 NOT F/H  24.915  He is running around +5 to +10
>>>> 
>>>> Coy C Day, N5OK
>>>> 20685 SW 29
>>>> Union City, OK 73090
>>>> H(405) 483-5632 C(405) 448-2368
>>>> n5ok at arrl.net
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