What is this?

This is a gateway between www.sotawatch.org and the mobile phone network. With help of it you can send spots in SMS to the SOTAwatch website.

How to use it?

Send your SMS to the +34 648 035 030 phone number using your SOTAwatch username and password.
This is an Spanish mobile number, so it is international SMS from outside EA. Please, check the costs!

SMS Example (full version) #1:

HG4UK pw HA5CQZ/P HA/EM-001 145525 FM op Zoli

HG4UK spots HA5CQZ/P (using "HG4UK" SOTAwatch registered callsign and "pw" password; the same as you use to post a spot), that HA5CQZ/P is on HA/EM-001 SOTA summit and uses 145.525 MHz in FM. Comment "op Zoli"

SMS Example (short version with self-spot) #2:

HG4UK pw * HA/KM-016 7032 vy QRM

HG4UK spots himself using his SOTAwatch registered callsign and "pw" password. He's on HA/KM-016 SOTA summit and uses 7.032 MHz in CW. Comment "vy QRM"

Hints:

• The frequency must be sent in kHz units without decimals.
• The transmitting mode is optional, the gateway can substitute it using the IARU Region 1 band plan.
• The gateway doesn't send any SMS answer. You can get a copy of your sent SMS if you register your email address. To use this feature simply send an email to sms2sota@irratia.org with your callsign and email address.
• Only the syntax is checked by the parser. If the format of the SMS isn't correct it is silently ignored.
• Capitalisation doesn't matter, both lower and upper case goes (except for the login, password and comment)

SpotSMS Gateway

+34 648 035 030