• 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.

Testing cell phone messaging Australia to USA

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Trentham (700m ASL), Australia & Hillsboro, KS
Hi guys... I was wondering if someone who has a cell phone which is not barred from receiving international messages might be able to PM me at [email protected] with their number - I need to test our Australian cell phone but the friend's numbers that we have tried to message to seem to be blocked from receiving messages from o/s...and the carrier in Australia thinks that the problem is not my phone... (and I think it is)

a million thanks!!

Hopefully we trip over some of you under a meso somewhere during April & May this year.


Jane
 
Wish I could help, but I put an international block on my phone. Your friends may have a similar block or their carrier may block international by default and they would have to opt in to receive them. This is because with international texts, the RECIPIENT gets charged for each incoming. They are a separate line-item charge that is not included in your text plan, and there is no way to reject/ignore an incoming text. I put the block on because one day I started getting spam texts from international numbers. I have a call blocking app, and I simply blacklisted the prefix 011 and that put an end to it.. Or so I thought. I got spammed over 150 times that first month (I have unlimited text, so what did I care), and when my bill came I found that I had been charged something like $40 extra for spam simply being sent to my number. That's when I found out that you get charged for INCOMING international texts and blew a gasket at Sprint for allowing it to happen. They apologized, reversed the charges, and blocked international access. So yeah ask your friends if they have anything like that.
 
I have a Google Voice number. You can feel free to text it if you'd like. I'll PM it to you.
 
Could you not implement a "Messenger" of "Facebook" app on your phones and "text" that way free (leveraging the web data portion). But I understand if you're trying to work with some "automated texting" app.
 
We're actually trying to make sure that we can use our iPhone purely as an emergency contact points between arriving in the country and getting a US cell phone.......have tried an unlockec number (thanks Austin!!), but the problem remains the same....I think it's because as you type the number into the iPhone it puts brackets around the area code..ok with phonecalls but I think that's what's stuffing the text messaging because the phone doesn't recognise the ( and )....
 
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