[SFDXA] An Alternative for alerting the Club on DX

[Bill]

The following email is an extract from another DX club addressing one of the
problems that prevails in many DX groups.  I tweaked the email a bit 
substituting
  our club SFDXA.  Novel idea, and utilizes today's new communication tools.

It maybe a useful idea for DXers of SFDXA - maybe we meed a CIO as well 
as PIO

Norm W4QN
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An Alternative for alerting the Club on DX

For a whole lot of reasons, many of us do not monitor .33 very much anymore.
Some of us have taken to alerting others in the Club about DX on the air by
sending messages to our Yahoo Group. That is appreciated, but most of us
are not in front of our email computers all the time.

I suspect that most Club members have a cell phone. If so, that means we
can all receive standard text messages.

There is a new Group Tweet application available that will allow anyone in
the Club to send a text message via Twitter that will in turn be broadcast
to every member as a text message to your cell phone. So, when I found the
NH8S this morning on 10 SSB, rather than sending an email to the list, I
could have simply sent a short message that read "NH8S, 28473 QSX UP 5 de
K9EL". That message would be sent to everyone who signed up to the group
via a standard text message.

Not sure who in our club is our "CIO" (Chief Information Officer), but all
we need to do is create a Twitter account in the name of SFDXA. Then each
member needs to sign up for Twitter as well - this is all free. A few
simple mechanics and anyone can then send a short text message or online
message from their PC to the SFDXA account which will then in turn be
re-broadcast to every member who has signed up - just like the repeater!
Only done via text messaging on any cell phone - does NOT need to be a smart
phone. This system works worldwide, by the way, so even our ex-members
living in FL or CA or VE3 land can participate.

Is there any interest?