Subject: Email notification of rarities
Date: Mar 31 12:50:40 2002
From: Jack Stephens - jstephens62 at attbi.com


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."
>
>
>