[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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