PSWIND --- it's back up and running!!!

So, I am pretty stoked.  Last year I start a service, called PSWIND.  Basically it allowed anyone that joined to send a text to a number, and it would rebroadcast that text to all other members of the group.

The idea behind it was that a member could share real-time wind reports with each other via SMS messages, which any old phone can receive.  The only problem was that the group grew to over 140 members, and the service wasn't free.  It actually would cost me about $4 each time a text was sent, due to the size of the group....not to mention there was a monthly charge for the service of $30 as well.

Needless to say I shut the service down in Nov.

Fast forward to about 2 week ago.  I saw a similar service on a Irish kiting forum, the difference was that it posted the text to the top of forum.

http://www.pskite.org/ is our local kite forum for Puget Sound kiters here in the Seattle area.  We have a wicked good web developer now who has done a ton of improvements to the site. Once I showed him the other site and the text feeds at the top of their site, and after he did a bit of digging, he thought that we could have something similar and even one-up them by "reviving" PSWIND.

So, now PSWIND is up and running better than ever, it costs no one any cash out of pocket to keep running, and many of us could not be more stoked to start sharing the wealth of wind here in the northwest.

It posts the text to a live feed at the top of pskite.org and it also broadcasts the text to all group members.  There are even preferences you can set up for the type of alerts you prefer.   Even cooler is the fact that the text shows which member sent the report, which is a great way to be popluar and have many beers coming your way from the other PSWIND members.

So, yeah, not only are there a bunch of site that give wind sensor reports, but here in Seattle we get reatime reports from fellow kiters who are kind enough to share the wind....and the stoke!

If you want to know more, or if you want to join and receive real-time wind reports from other kiters, then check out this thread at http://www.pskite.org/.

click here for PSWIND (Pugest Sound Wind Info Needed Daily)