Subj : The Weekly ARRL Lett
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Tue Sep 17 2019 19:23:54

Hello Daryl.

15 Sep 19 13:01, you wrote to me:

 DS>   I co-moderate the WEATHER echo with Mike Powell...I'm still waiting
 DS> for word of the updated ECHOLIST UPDATER site, since the passing of
 DS> Ben Ritchey...but, I haven't seen anything else on that. I can either
 DS> send the MOD UPD via email or netmail.

Dale Barnes, the Intermail author, is converting Ben's PowerBASIC elist bot to 
a C++ program using SQLite currently.  He's doing it in his spare time so 
there's no rush on it right now.

 DS> around the time of my Mom's death on August 9, I decided that I'd had
 DS> enough, so I UNFRIENDED EVERYONE, family, relatives, everyone.

I noticed that.  You should install Social Fixer.  Takes care a lot of FB's 
annoyances.

 DS> eyes. So, I sent it back overnight on Friday, and he got it on Monday
 DS> (his wife signed for it).

What a lid. :(

 DS>   To me a hobby...whether a BBS, ham radio, or something else, should
 DS> NEVER take priority over things like church, family, health, job, or
 DS> especially honey-do's -- in the latter case, that nice rig you have
 DS> your eye on for Christmas or your birthday, may be going "bye-bye" (hi
 DS> hi).

Like it says in "The Amateur's Code": [A ham is] balanced: radio is a hobby, 
never interfering with duties owed to family, job, school, or community. 
Written in 1928, that's still very true today.

I am off the air due to antenna problems.  I want to put up my Mosley RV-4C 
vertical but I need a new base.  It's $50 with shipping but I am having so many 
financial issues due to losing my IT job after my car accident that I will 
probably remain off the air indefinitely.

I'm also wanting to sell my Yaesu FT-450D and get an ICOM IC-718.  The 450D is 
a nice radio but it has too many menus and button-pushing for my tastes.

My current project is resurrecting an old project if I can find my code: a 
text-based modern logging program for casual use that will export ADIF files 
for use with TQSL.  There's nothing for OS/2 these days and I have the 
capability to create it for OS/2, Win32, and DOS/DOS32 using Pascal.  Since the 
Max/2 BBS is stabilized now (though it always can use work), I'm working on 
this side project.  My program will be freeware, of course.

73 DE KD5COL,
Sean

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