HX is an absolute waste of time, even when you try to do things right, liker join the "help me" sections as a new poster. You might even get a response months later like this:
Your best bet is to find ads on HX with phone numbers, cross check it with TER and use TER as your proof of being in the hobby world. Most CA girls have no clue about ECCIE.
I've had some luck with eroticmonkey (reviews only) also but it uses existing data from TER to formulate most of its results. Its like TER with a better layout.