• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Bluetooth Cellphone with Vista?

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Hi everyone,

Its been awhile since I posted here, but I'm getting ready for the '07 season and was looking for some advice on cell phones and Vista. I bought a new Dell a couple months ago, and it came with a free upgrade to Vista.

I was hoping to make the jump to Vista as I like the slick interface, performance gains from superfetch and the searching capabilities, and my new machine has more than enough memory to meet the extra resource requirements.

However, my Sony Ericsson Z500 is not compatible with Vista. The PC Suite installer does not work on Vista. I hacked the MSI and forced it to ignore the OS requirements, and had to change some security settings on Vista to allow it override some files, but it was all futile. There does not appear to be a fix in the near future (or at least in time for the chase season). This is a shame since the rest of my software, mapping and radar, looks to be compatible.

One of the drawbacks of my Z500 is that I have to connect it via a USB cable in order to dial in, so I was thinking about buying a phone with bluetooth. My question to you folks is, can you recommend a good bluetooth phone that I can use as a wireless modem. I'm with Cingular, operating under an old Media Works data plan that they no longer offer. I know it was a hot setup a couple of years ago and some of you may still be on it. Maybe you have some experience using this plan with bluetooth. Also, does anyone have experience connecting with a bluetooth phone under Vista? I know its barely been on the market, but I was hoping somebody was up and running on the new OS as the season is coming up quick.

Well, I won't be upgrading to Vista until I get this phone situation straightened out, but in the meantime are there any good phone models you guys can recommend?
 
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