[SFDXA] An Alternative for alerting the Club on DX

[Kai Siwiak]

Hi Norm, Sebastian,

This is another technology which I consciously avoid. I also recommend to my 
family and friends to avoid these invasive "social media" applets, and to 
generally keep a low profile on the web.  The reason? Privacy.

Yes they are "free".  Sort of.  Have you figured out their business model yet?  
Its not "free", is it!

73
Kai


On 9/10/2012 10:43 AM, Norman Alexander wrote:
> I shall leave the answer to these questions to the experts - as I have yet to
> "tweet" or "twit?"
>
> Is there significance to the statement below that says there is a "new tweet
> application?"
>
>
> Norm
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Sebastian, W4AS"<w4as at bellsouth.net>
> To: "SFDXA at mailman.qth.net"<SFDXA at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Mon, September 10, 2012 10:04:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [SFDXA] An Alternative for alerting the Club on DX
>
> 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
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>
>
> 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?
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