[SFDXA] An Alternative for alerting the Club on DX

Ed Callaway ed at sunrisemicro.com
Tue Sep 11 13:37:28 EDT 2012


All,

I've gotten a couple of queries from people having trouble getting SMS alerts from DXWatch.com.

The key is to use an email address, not a mobile phone number, in the signup form.  (The form is unfortunately very misleading here.)  I put my phone's email address in the "alternate email" box, and leave the "mobile phone" box blank.  
 
Your phone service will have an email domain (T-Mobile's is tmomail.net), and usually one's SMS address is just your phone number, followed by the domain.  For example, if you had service with T-Mobile, yours might be 19545551212 at tmomail.net .  But contact your phone service provider, or check this list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways ), to get the correct address format for your service provider.
 
73,
 
Ed N4II.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Rimmel N8PR [mailto:n8pr1 at bellsouth.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 12:20 PM
To: Ed Callaway; SFDXA at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [SFDXA] An Alternative for alerting the Club on DX

I find that the audio alert on Logger 32 work just fine...  Tells me if it is a new band or mode for any station I need.  And I can put in an individual call or prefix to be alerted to, as well

If I can't hear the laptop, chances are that I am not near enough the rig to work him anyway !

PeteR  N8PR

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Callaway
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:05 AM
To: SFDXA at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [SFDXA] An Alternative for alerting the Club on DX

No, they do not.  It's just an email to them.

Ed.

-----Original Message-----
From: sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:sfdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Sebastian, W4AS
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 9:13 PM
To: SFDXA at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [SFDXA] An Alternative for alerting the Club on DX

Thanks for the heads up on DXWATCH.  I didn't know they had that feature.  I went to login and forgot my password, and when I ask for a reminder via email, I never get it.

I sent them an email tonight, but in the meantime, do they charge for the SMS messages?

73 de Sebastian, W4AS



On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Ed Callaway <ed at sunrisemicro.com> wrote:

> I think the reason this type of thing is of only moderate interest is 
> that one has been able to get SMS DX alert messages for years, from 
> any number of cluster web sites.  On http://www.dxwatch.com , for 
> example, it's easy to set up alert filters for the DX entity, the 
> spotting entity, band, and mode; when a spot meeting your requirements 
> appears, at text is sent to your phone (or whatever email address(es) 
> you desire).  One can, for example, receive spots only for Swains 
> Island activity on 12m CW, sent by spotters in the US.
>
> Using one of these sites, one is immediately aware of DX activity on a 
> desired band or mode.  The question then becomes one of propagation to 
> SFL and, in my experience, the variation in station capability and 
> local noise is so great among SFDXA members that knowing that Norm or 
> Bill or Dick or Harry has heard a DX station is of little use.  Even 
> when I was at W4MOT -- not a pipsqueak station by any means -- 
> frequently Norm would spot DX that I could not hear (and, I hope, the 
> reverse was true -- at least occasionally :-) ).
>
> Frankly, while W4MOT was just down the hall from my office, I used the 
> web alerts to great advantage -- at the first DX spot, from any 
> spotting entity, I was off to the station like a shot, before the pile 
> got too big and the time away from my desk noticeable.  If I had to 
> wait for someone locally to spot the DX, rather than anyone anywhere 
> in the world, I would be waiting a long time.  Having a worldwide 
> network of potential spotters means that substantially no DX activity 
> is missed, and the value of this, in the minds of most, is greater 
> than the knowledge that the DX is audible to someone in the tri-county area.
>
> Ed N4II.

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