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Well, hey, good to hear from you, my friend. You're a little bit in the noise today. It's been like that here lately, though. In fact, it's so bad, the 040 repeater, which, of course, the folks in Portland know the one I'm talking about. All our, you know, our, a lot of our Aries and that sort of stuff, a lot of local nets go on on the 040 repeater. And it's part of the link repeater system. And about a month ago, when it was hot, I called a local check net that we do on Mondays. And I do it once a month. And I stood in just a certain sweet spot in my room where it was air conditioned. And the net, the net just sounded OK. I stood in that exact same spot a couple of minutes check in to an Aries net on the 040. And I tried three times. And the net controller could not copy my callsign. The propagation here is so horrible right now. And I wonder, I'm guessing maybe it's like that all over the place. Maybe other parts of the country have the same thing. And you know, it deteriorates during the summertime. But this summer seems to be especially bad. And lots of people with good signals, including me, if people are coming back saying, can I have your call again? They can't, you know, they know me. And they, you know, they still can't recognize me. That says the propagation is just absolutely in the tank. So I don't know. I love the summer weather when it's nice. But it sure would be nice to be able to hit the repeater a little better. Nice thing. Anyway, Bruce, just because. I'm going to send it back to you one more time.