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   Sean,   
      
   SD>I moderate 14 echoes here in Fidonet and I can't get people to post in half   
   SD>of them even though I try to seed the echoes for coversation.   
      
     I co-moderate the WEATHER echo with Mike Powell...I'm still waiting   
   for word of the updated ECHOLIST UPDATER site, since the passing of Ben   
   Ritchey...but, I haven't seen anything else on that. I can either send   
   the MOD UPD via email or netmail.   
      
     On Facebook, I moderate several groups, but that's the ONLY thing I do   
   on there anymore. I got so BURNED OUT, and fed up with all the messages   
   on the Timeline and in Messenger, "demanding" that I "Share this", "Look   
   At This", etc. (and some of that was malware). Right around the time of   
   my Mom's death on August 9, I decided that I'd had enough, so I   
   UNFRIENDED EVERYONE, family, relatives, everyone.   
      
     One ham radio operator was so infuriated that I had the absolute gall   
   to unfriend him, that he said "I don't want to be your friend anymore",   
   and that "I should send back to him, the ThumbDV that he had sent me   
   earlier in the year". It was meant as a birthday present, but with his   
   demand for its return, that makes him "An Indian Giver" in my eyes. So,   
   I sent it back overnight on Friday, and he got it on Monday (his wife   
   signed for it).   
      
     I do NOT spend every waking moment with Facebook, the BBS, ham radio,   
   square dancing, etc. On the BBS, if some days, I don't feel like logging   
   on to check QWK Mail, I don't -- although I update the weather and ham   
   radio related bulletins (unless I'm offline for thunderstorms or   
   internet outages). As for Facebook, I'm still a member of about 10   
   groups, but have unjoined all the others, as well as the pages.   
      
     Back to ham radio, my involvement is on selected Saturdays with   
   license exam sessions (I'm one of the few VE Team Liaisons in the   
   central Arkansas area), and during the evenings with nets.   
      
     As for being on the air, I purchased a replacement ThumbDV from   
   Northwest Digital Radio for around $125 (with shipping), and it got here   
   Friday (it wasn't supposed to arrive until Monday...but it was back   
   ordered, and delayed a week). Yet, that's $75 cheaper than the DV Dongle   
   from Robin, AA4RC. Plus, his DV Tool program ONLY allows access to the   
   US Trust Servers (REF)...but NOT access to the X-Reflectors (XRF, XLX,   
   DCS, etc.). Yet, the BlueDV program from David, PA7LIM, *DOES* -- and it   
   also allows access to DMR...plus it soon will allow access to Fusion.   
      
     The only REF systems I'm on are for the Arklatex D-Star Net on   
   Tuesday, the CERT D-Star Net on the 1st Thursday, and the New Mexico   
   D-Star Net on the second Thursday. I am on the QuadNet Array for the   
   QCWA Net on Sunday, the Trains Net on Friday, and the Food Net on the   
   first Saturday (schedule conflicts forced me to reduce the frequency of   
   that net). I also do Packet Via Telnet to/from the NS2B BBS in Penfield,   
   New York (being scribe for their weekly net on Monday), and check into a   
   "laid back" net on Echolink on Wednesday. It's a roundtable format, with   
   no "mad rush" to check in. I've been a part of that net since March,   
   2006, when I first started using Echolink. Otherwise, I'm not on the air   
   at all.   
      
     To me a hobby...whether a BBS, ham radio, or something else, should   
   NEVER take priority over things like church, family, health, job, or   
   especially honey-do's -- in the latter case, that nice rig you have your   
   eye on for Christmas or your birthday, may be going "bye-bye" (hi hi).   
      
   Daryl, WX4QZ   
      
      
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