Subject: Email notification of rarities
Date: Apr 1 17:03:16 2002
From: Gene Bullock - bullockg at earthlink.net


I don't understand this message. I thought that up-to-the-minute reports on
rarities was one of the main reasons people subscribe to Tweeters.
Gene Bullock
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Stephens" <jstephens62 at attbi.com>
To: <ray at buytelescopes.com>
Cc: "'Tweeters'" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 12:50 PM
Subject: Email notification of rarities


> If we were to use e-mail for notification of rarities, via pagers or cell
> phones, I would suggest not using Tweeters as the vehicle for
communication.
> The volume of traffic would prove too cumbersome, especially for those
using
> pagers.
> A separate communication group could easily be set up through Yahoo
> (http://groups.yahoo.com/) with only those individuals interested in
> receiving real-time rarity reports signing up. Tweeters could be included
in
> this group, so that all reports coming to the communication group could be
> mirrored in Tweeters as well.
>
> Jack
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray York" <ray at buytelescopes.com>
> To: "'Jack Stephens'" <jstephens62 at attbi.com>
> Cc: "'Tweeters'" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 9:49 AM
> Subject: RE: FRS radios frequency
>
>
> > I can see the flats from my office. They are straight across the water
> > (no obstruction) so I am hoping that it will work. I guess that I need
> > to send my wife for a drive <g>. I have a web enabled phone and I have
> > thought about getting the tweeters email there but I don't know about
> > getting every message twice. If verizon would let me check my email
> > account via POP3, I could have my tweeters mail go there and that would
> > be the "cleanest" setup. I cannot seem to access my verizon (myvzw.com)
> > email any other way than with my phone or the web interface. Does anyone
> > else have a myvzw.com account and access it any other way? Are there
> > other options? Myvzw.com does allow for outside POP3 account access
> > (meaning, I can access my buytelescopes.com account from my phone or
> > their web interface). Thanks.
> >
> > Ray York
> > Anacortes Telescope and Wild Bird
> > http://www.BuyTelescopes.com
> > http://www.PlanetCameras.com
> > (800) 850-2001
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jack Stephens [mailto:jstephens62 at attbi.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 7:09 AM
> > To: ray at buytelescopes.com
> > Cc: Tweeters
> > Subject: FRS radios frequency
> >
> > Ray,
> >
> > The standard for birding with FRS radios (established by the ABA) is
> > channel
> > 11, subcode 22. At a range of about 2 miles, I'm not sure if you would
> > pick
> > up signals from Sammish flats in Anacortes. You could certainly send out
> > a
> > friend with another friend and see what the limits of the system would
> > be.
> > For instant notification, we would need a pager system like they have in
> > England. My current pager has e-mail capability, and many cell phones
> > are
> > now web-enabled. With enough of these in the field, word of significant
> > rarities could be spread within minutes (with all the attendant problems
> > that this could cause).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jack Stephens
> > Edmonds, WA
> > jstephens62 at attbi.com
> > Use FRS 11/22 when birding the Pacific Northwest
> >
> > On March 30 Ray York wrote:
> >
> > "Sorry if this has been discussed too many times but I don't know how to
> > access the archives. I just got a pair of the Motorola T6320 radios. Do
> > we (Tweeters) have a channel and code that we use when out in the field?
> > My store is just south of the Sammish flats and I would love to be able
> > to hear if there is a sighting (that duck has eluded me since day one!)
> > and head up there. Thank you."
> >
> >
> >
>