How To Text Message

If "text messaging" is a bit of s mystery to you, is was to me as well. So let me show you what I know so you can participate in our Test Spin polls.

Required equipment: cell phone

Most cell phones have the capability to send and receive text messages.... usually to & from other cell phones. Cell phone providers may charge a fee for sending or recieving a text message. Many offer text message bundles. So check with your cell phone provider.

Sometimes there are additional fees incurred when you send a text message, however that must be discloised to you. For instance, to vote on American Idol, you'll be charged 99 cents.

There is no extra fee chraged to vote for our Test Spin on the Spirit Music Countdown. Once you send your vote you will get a response verifying it was received. No additional messages will be sent.

Creating a text message

On your celll phone, you may find a menu item for messaging. It may say "Text Message" "Messaging" or something similar. You should see an option to Create a New Message.

You'll get a box to enter a number for the recipient. Instead of using a cell number, you are going to enter a 5 digit number instead. To vote on a test spin you'll enter the number 23754. Yes, it may seem odd, but your cell phone provider knows how to route your message to the right place using this 5 digit code, even though in this case it's not being sent to a cell phone number.

You should then get a box to enter a message. For our test spin we ask you to send us a one digit number.... that's all. In order for it to regsiter correctly as a vote we request you don't add any addtional text.

Select a number from 1-5 that reflects how much you like the song we are test spinning that weekend on the Spirit Music Countdown. (1 being the lowest, 5 being the highest). Enter that number from your keypad 1 2 3 4,or 5.

Then send your message on it's way!

You've done it... and you should shortly receive a comfirmation it was recieved. So since you both send & received a message to & from us, thats counts as 2 text messages that may be reflected on your celll phone account.

Thanks for participating!