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Well thank you so much to KI5SSR and of course to K5... sorry KI5Y. Tonight Mike, thank you, thank you you guys do a fantastic job. What a wonderful bunch you have on the first rent of chickens. Goodness me, absolutely wonderful to be here. Anyway this is KI5Y, I'm here in Aloua, central Scotland. And yeah, well my journey as far as the amateur radio is concerned. I came through probably the most popular route. And that was, I was a CB'er back in the 1980s. I was a CB'er, I had a CB in the car and everything else and I loved it. And then of course these, what's it called, the scanners came out. And of course I managed to get a scanner and I'm listening around. And I could hear all this traffic that was happening on the like 145 MHz. And I'm thinking what's on there, what's all that about? So I was a CB'er and I was asking other guys and I'm saying what's all that about? Oh they go, that's the posh guys, that's the posh people. Oh they're the licensed guys. Oh really, okay. And how do you get licensed? Oh you have to go and sit at the exam and everything else. But don't worry about it. Well I did worry about it and I thought no, I actually want to hear myself on that part of the scanner that I'm listening to. So back in I think 1992 I got my first call sign that was, how much did you call sign? PM7MPX and within a few months I sat my Morse code exam and got my pleasant call sign. PM0EP. Let me just take a quick tip.