Folks, if you've recently upgraded or renewed your annual club membership but it's still not active, please reach out to the BOD or a moderator. The PayPal system has a slight bug which it doesn't allow it to activate the account on it's own.
Interesting. I bet it will be about the same quality. I have a gyre and absolutely love what it does and how it does it. I think the build quality is poor. Lately I have to keep taking it apart and clean it to get it to run.