Re: [IRCA] Using the #MWDX Hashtag on Twitter

[Rick Dau <drummer1965usa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen, I don't know about the #MWDX hashtag on Twitter, but a bunch of us on these listservers are active in the #MWDX room on www.starchat.net.  All it takes is to download Java, and you can get onto Starchat, then find us in the #MWDX room.  It's the only DX-oriented livetime chatroom that I know of on the Internet, and it's a great way to pass on and receive hot tips.  I'm not on there at the moment, as I'm currently updating my chronological FM logbook from South Omaha, but I should be dropping by before the night's over. 
 
73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska 


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 From: Stephen Ponder <stephen_ponder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ABDX <ABDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; IRCA Medium-Wave DX Mailing List <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Mail Group NRC <am@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 7:56 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Using the #MWDX Hashtag on Twitter
 
Sometime in the not-too-distant past, I remember reading an article in a radio journal that suggested the use of the "#MWDX" hashtag on Twitter as a means of disseminating DX tips/catches to other DXers. Is this method still being suggested?

I have been doing this during my "Insomniac DX" sessions (usually past midnight local time, 0600 UTC) and the only "tweet" that I've received was from a "shady" woman in Monterrey, NL, México, in response to my tweet about Radio Esperanza, 1140 kHz. It was VERY obvious she was not a DXer, if you know what I mean ...

Are we "supposed" to respond to #MWDX tweets or treat them simply as DX alerts? Maybe I've had the wrong mindset all along.

Thanks & 73,

Steve Ponder, N5WBI
Houston, TX
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