[SixClub] uniform subject in band opening. WAS: "RE:TEST"

Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:23:31 -0700

Well I'd suggest we stick to the subject line. There are more e-mail =
clients
that can filter the subject than the body of the email.   Also if I say
something like "WOW! What a major band opening" then the filter could =
pick
that up.  Adding the UTC and grids would be nice.

i.e.=20
BANDOPEN 2100z hearing FN03 in DN13

Just having "bandopen" in the subject would be enough of a filter and =
the
rest would be quick reference for the details.=20

I just hate forgetting to check the folder that sixclub gets put into. =
And
when I do there are tons of e-mails about band openings.=20

Zeb
KD7EVS

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] =
[mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Tom Peters
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [SixClub] Test

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 =

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.

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