Squadron Alerting System
Our squadron uses an email to text alert system for time-sensitive notices to squadron members.
This system has subcategories for Cadet, Senior Member, Parents, Ground Team/Urban Direction Finding Team, Aircrew, Mission Staff, and All.
Add your information to this Google Form using the information below.
Some of the major carriers in the Illinois area:
| Alltel | phone@sms.alltelwireless.com |
| AT&T | phone@txt.att.net or phone@MMS.att.net (for Consumer Cellular customers) |
| Boost Mobile | phone@myboostmobile.com |
| Cingular | phone@mobile.mycingular.com |
| Cricket | phone@mms.mycricket.com |
| Metro PCS | phone@MyMetroPcs.com |
| Mobi | phone@mobipcs.net |
| Nextel | phone@messaging.nextel.com or phone@page.nextel.com – check with Sprint Nextel |
| Powertel | phone@ptel.net |
| Sprint | phone@messaging.sprintpcs.com, phone@pm.sprint.com, or phone@sprinttext.com – check with Sprint |
| SunCom | phone@tms.suncom.com |
| T-Mobile | phone@tmomail.net |
| US Cellular | phone@email.uscc.net |
| Verizon | phone@vtext.com or phone@vzwpix.com |
| Virgin Mobile | phone@vmobl.com |
If you have a TracPhone, visit http://www.fonefinder.net, type in your phone number and it will tell you the first carrier your phone was assigned to. If you (or TracPhone behind the scenes) have switched carriers but kept your phone number, this may not be accurate.
In all cases, send an email message to your formatted text number to test your ability to receive incoming text messages before making the change on eServices.
What if it doesn’t work or your carrier is not listed? Generally, you can send a text message to your own email. In the To: section of the text, simply type in your email address. Then wait for the email and see where it came from.
Go into eServices, click on your name in the top right corner of the page, and select Contacts under My Account. Select “Add new contact“, “Alpha Pager” and priority “Emergency” then enter your 10 digit phone number followed by the “at” sign (@) followed by the text domain suffix below for your carrier.
Note that your phone number should NOT contain parenthesis, double hash marks (#), spaces, dashes, or even a leading one (1). For example 6305551212@text.carrier.com.
While you are doing this, you may want to validate all of your other contact information.
While eServices updates this information immediately, it can take up to a month before it flows through the IL Wing email system.
