[SixClub] Test

[Tom Peters]

Great idea.

Speaking of uniform reporting, it drives me nuts when people go to the=20
trouble of reporting an opening (that part doesn't drive me nuts, that part=
=20
makes me very happy) but then don't mention the time. Please PLEASE put in=
=20
the time, IN UTC!!, in your condition reports. In fact, why not standardize=
=20
the subject line or the first line of the message (my mail client's filters=
=20
can search either one easily) to something like this:
BANDOPEN UTCTIME MYGRID COMMENTS
   e.g.
BANDOPEN 0218UTC EN53 hearing EL80, EL90

or perhaps
BANDOPEN UTCTIME HEARD
just giving some grids or other geographical region heard.

I can't tell you how many times I've gotten messages from hams that sort=20
near the bottom or top of my list of incoming mail because the sender has=20
the clock set wrong on his PC and so that timestamp is whacked out. Kinda=20
hard to tell what time/date the band opening alert is referring to, or=20
whether to get excited about it or not.

At 01:02 PM 1/21/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>I suggest we come up with something that we can put in the subject line=
 that
>Is uniform when we hear the band open. Granted 90% of the time ya'll hear
>the band open I can CQ till my throat hurts and MAYBE talk across town. But
>that once or twice when the band opening includes Idaho it would be nice to
>know.
>
>If we put something like BANDOPEN in the subject those of us who are on
>countless ham radio, computer, etc... mailing lists could set our filters=
 to
>not only put all sixclub emails in a folder but when receiving a "BANDOPEN"
>e-mail it could play a sound or something. I've done similar things on=
 other
>email lists. My e-mail sends/receives every 7 minutes. And each time I have
>at least 5-10 new emails. If one was added for   I could definitely pull my
>self away from whatever I'm doing to go flip on the 897.


[Commentary] Today's solutions are tomorrow's problems. --Bruce
Sterling at the American Center for Design "Living Surfaces"
Conference, San Francisco, October 1994
--... ...--  -.. .  -. ----. --.- --.- -...
tpeters@nospam.mixcom.com (internet)  remove "nospam." N9QQB (ham)
"HEY YOU" (loud shouting)  WEB ADDRESS http//www.mixweb.com/tpeters
43 7' 17.2" N, by 88=B8 6' 28.9" W,  Elevation 815',  Grid Square EN53wc
WAN/LAN/Telcom Analyst, Tech Writer, MCP, Cisco Certified CCNA