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How Best to Connect for Downwinders??
Regret to have missed the race from Sand Key this past Sunday. Although I must say it presented quite a site to see 30+ kiters go by as I rigged up for a session off St. Pete beach.
Would love to join in on down winders over the Winter months. I'm from Chicago and fly Peter Lynn kites and promise not to get in anyone's way. Am wondering if the Old Guard on the forum could give me some tips on how to hook up with the group when they are doing a down winder. I live in St. Petersburg with a flexible which allows me to go when the wind blows.... Best regards, Tim |
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People sometimes post on here.
In addition, last year or so we set up a TextMark service to help people communicate to others when it was windy. It got some cooperation, but not as much as anticipated. I just setup a similar texting service for DWs. Here is the link http://lite.textmarks.com/DOWNWINDER Basic instructions are on the site. A discussion of the basics for the TEXTMARKS system is here (this one applies to WINDY... not DOWNWINDER, but the basics are the same) : http://www.fksa.org/showthread.php?t=8676&page=4 Not sure why, but communication on a large scale doesn't happen around here. My guess is that there are enough riders that people have settled into cliques. Text to that link and I will get back to you, if not more people. The TEXTMARK texts amongst people can be output to a webpage as well, as shown here on right under ("Recent Wind"). http://www.scottfears.com/ Seems like a no brainer tool for updates of races etc. One person texts something, everyone gets it in 5 seconds. The output can be accessed both by text updates for subscribed members or by visiting a web site via s smartphone showing the linked gadget and updates (no subscription necessary). Even as useful as it seems, I haven't seen one example of this technology allowing coordination of information taken advantage of, which I think is a missed opportunity. Maybe it will be used this year (?) At bare minimum, I will hook up a gadget on that demo page and you will be linked to people via me and several others who do DWs. Last edited by Unimog Bob; 12-08-2010 at 09:12 AM. |
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good luck with that! I fly PL's too--chargers. the inflated guys don't like foils. jjust 2 weeks ago i broke a spar in the surf and of course could not relaunnch. same time a group was starting a downwinder and a guy had to swim in from 1/4 mile out because of a bladder failure. an hour later, another bladder failure up the beach and tangled mess of spaghetti lines. But the only issue that day was the foil that could not relaunch! sorry for the rant but you and I are most likely the only arcs in fla i'll be in key west between xmas and new years. hope there's wind. email a company down there about the flats trip they offer. i guess since i'm flying a foil, they won't even answer my email
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Wow. One day a friend posts about a wind forecast and gets asked about it's futility, now I respond with an offering to a guy to join us in DWs and supposedly I am not sincere. You are right ARCSRULE, my real agenda was to get a foil guy out there and screw him over.
I couldn't care less if a guy is flying a bed sheet. I started on foils myself. Not sure why anyone would post such a negative response after I obviously took some time to try to hook a guy up. None of the guys I ride with give a shit what a guy is riding. |
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I think Text Marks is the way to go, plus the embed feature is sweet for those at the office and wondering if they should duck out.
Its 20 bucks a month to work with T-Mobile, though. (I have T-Mo) I would gladly use the service if we can take up a collection from the other T- Mobile users. |
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Hmm. I thought T-mobile did that.
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Easy enough. Just call me or someone else, they text to it. You don't need a subscription to check the webpage (via smartphone), just bookmark the webpage and check the output. http://lite.textmarks.com/DOWNWINDER |
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Gotcha. Just signed up for DOWNWINDER
Would it be possible to use the widget code on another site? |
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