[SFDXA] An Alternative for alerting the Club on DX

[Sebastian, W4AS]

Unless I missed it on their site http://www.grouptweet.com/, everyone must still use a Twitter client (or app) in order to receive and send messages.  I didn't see any mention of standard text messages.

This means you must have a smart phone in order to use the Twitter application, and unless you are using one of the newer phones, you must be running the twitter application to receive the messages.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.


73 de Sebastian, W4AS



On Sep 10, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Norman Alexander <npalex at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> ===========================================================
> 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?