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I looked over at your QRZ page. I have not been to our last operator's PTH, still from the Philippines, but I have been to say that, believe it or not, wandered around there for a few days. Boy, it's been too long. It's been almost 15 years. But I really like the Philippines. I really like the sort of unification of a whole bunch of different people and cultures in a bunch of different islands. It vaguely, vaguely reminds me of our experiment here in the United States. But yeah, love the Philippines, love the weather, love the food, holy cow, love the people, and thank you so much for dropping in and saying hi. And being part of the night's nest, I know it's Friday over there, but it is about 10.20 over here in the Seattle area. Well, thanks, don't be a stranger, and good to hear from you over there. We have two more stations, actually just one more station with a check-in on this round. Houston 7IP with region TWA. Hey, Ben, Brian here. Look, Ben, I just wanted to say thank you for hosting tonight's nest. I know it's a hard job, and you make it seem easy. Congratulations on your new job. I'm also actually starting a new job at the beginning of September. That's why I'm taking August off on that travel. Also, it's good to hear that you like bike. I am looking forward to trying out the new bike trail down there on the waterfront, but I think that they either have just completed or are completing soon. With regard to the radio programming, in case anybody's interested, the major problem with the new radios that use Bluetooth for programming is that Bluetooth is necessarily an asynchronous operation, whereas Chirp presumes that it has synchronous operations with the radio. Bluetooth, like it imposes a segment reassemble that makes it fundamentally compatible with Chirp, and so it's going to take a lot of software work to build in a layer that allows Chirp to work correctly. Speaking of, I noticed that you had mentioned that you're interested in a TechNet. I'm interested in that as well. I might even be interested in hosting. However, I don't think I could do it weekly, but perhaps doing it once a month or something might be interesting, so I may reach out to some of the group leaders. Anyway, that's all I had to say. Once again, thank you so much for hosting the Net Tonight. This is a KJ7 IVP from Pike Place Market, back to control.