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Well Richard, you bet. We would love, if you can wait until the 73 round, that would be great. But yeah, I know what you're saying, you got out of the hobby and came back and you know it's amazingly more common than you would think. A lot of stations I've talked to on digital and HF were amateur radio operators that had to get out of the hobby for some reason or another and ended up coming back so that's pretty common and I'm glad you're back. And you know you're right, I mean it's amateur radio, I guess it's a service and a hobby. But luckily we don't have to use it as a service very often and so it's mostly a hobby most of the time. But it's actually a whole ton of hobbies within a hobby. You know, you get started on HF, UHF and kind of figure out the repeaters and then you've got to learn, you're constantly having to learn new modes, new bands, all that stuff. So to me, it's a whole ton of hobbies within a hobby and so we'll come back to you on the 73 round, we'd love to hear your announcement. Richard, thanks for being here, we sure do appreciate it. KF5SSR, KN5Y, over to you Jeanette. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7.0. KF5SSR, Richard. The reason you don't hear me saying it every single time is because honestly it is not as required in digital as it is when you're on HF because here they can find you. But there it's pretty hard so a lot of people get away with a lot of stuff on regular HF and I've heard it, I'm sure you've heard it. So they're tough, that's where they're really strict at. Here they're a little bit more lenient and I try to make it more friendly. I call everybody by their call sign but I try not to be too strict on it but I've not gotten into any trouble over that yet. But anyway, it's good to get into the habit of doing it so when you get on HF you're supposed to identify every time on HF. Anyway, but don't worry about that. Let's go to KJ5F0X, Chad. Chad has been a ham and we've really enjoyed having you. So what's new with you? What got you interested in amateur radio? And if you'd like to tell us a little bit about your journey. Fox, come on.