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So Netrom is kind of like a layer on top of a X.25 networking where you get a bunch of nodes together and they all discover each other and they can route through each other. So I have a node here called cool on 145.050 megahertz and that node has learned its neighbors and then it knows what's behind its neighbors. So I can actually just say connect to Santa Clara and it will go to the Santa Clara node in the Bay Area by automatically routing through the Netrom network which is on top of AX.25 which is the radio transport layer. It's fascinating to me, I know it sounds like gobble-be-goop, but the cool node is online and it's on a hill here above my house on a hill up the 80 watt and I've just been monitoring it to try to keep it cool by partially burying an ammo box with the radio and the Raspberry Pi in it. Go ahead. Oh that sounds cool. It almost sounds like a meshnet of some sort. Yeah, you know I'm glad you said that. That would have saved me about 20 sentences there. Yeah, it's exactly like a meshnet. They're intelligent and they discover each other. So yeah, I can make it all the way to Oregon, I can make it down to Los Angeles just by issuing one command on the node. So if anyone has an AX.25 terminal or something like that or another node, you can reach out to the cool node which has a bulletin board on it so you can do email, there's even a video game on there, you can play Zork or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'm trying to make node networking fun, by the way. It's kind of boring just hopping from node to node. I think the technology is fascinating and there's really no dependency on the internet, there's just a network between Oregon and most of California on 145050. It's a really cool node network. That is exciting. This is the 050, the EPRS frequency.