----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Dougherty (W2IRT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DX Base Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 12:16 AM Subject: [Dxbase] Pager/TXT gateway
> Got a question for the assembled braintrust. As I was sitting around this > afternoon waiting for the TJ3 station to grace SSB with his presence, I was > wishing there were a way to get TXT or e-mail notification of all-time new > spots on my cellphone. Essentially, I already have an amazingly good filter > set established, both through my AR cluster connection's settings on a > coarse level and through DXBase for fine. > > What I'd really like to see is a subset of "priority" level spots that get > escalated to urgent status and are beamed out to a cell or pager. Anybody > know of a way of doing this? Seems kids and executives are swearing by TXT > messaging -- there's gotta be a way of doing this for DX spotting! Any ideas? > > Pete It seems to me that there was a system a few years back that did that. But I haven't seen anything like it in a while. When on the Fire Dept. I used a program to page people and it sent text messages. But there wasn't a way to link it with another program such as DXB. I use a cell phone so rarely although I carry it. If it rang...I'd probably have a heart attack. LOL
