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I can't, I have to stop myself short from singing on the air. There are certain songs that I use them as key finders and I will always be right on pitch with a certain melody that I remember, like Mozart, 23rd Symphony, or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, and even some like jazz songs. And rock songs. And my little brothers will remember the pitches too and we'll start singing harmonies spontaneously. They could make a movie about us. We're haunted. But I always can tell an interval. I'm similarly undefeated in the general choir when we're doing Mozart's Requiem. I did the recording, I hired me to do the recording and the director said that I had done the best recording he's ever heard of Mozart's Requiem. And it's gone. It was lost in storage when I became homeless. But if a director in the general choir or the general choir would ask what that interval was, I could tell what the interval was. I could nail it every single time, but I can't always tell what key it's in. So isn't it funny? We get bits and pieces. We get scraps. Very good. Yeah, it is funny. The French Conservatory people evidently believe that perfect pitch can be developed. I don't agree. I think that it's born. And you can get closer to it, but I don't think you can develop it fully. And I've got very good relative pitch, but not perfect pitch. Anyway, segue, this quan shang, it's called the UVK5, Uniform Victor Kilo 5. $30 on Amazon, and the cool thing about it is that you can put any firmware you want into it, and there are several. And there's two, one from England and one from Italy, that will allow you to do not real single sideband, but double sideband, somewhat suppressed carrier. So I actually used it the other night, a couple of weeks ago on the Western Washi, what is it, Pacific Northwest VHF Society, or whatever they call themselves. They have an SSB net on, what is it, Tuesday nights at 730 or eight, I forget which, it's on their website. Anyway, I participate in that with some older gear that drifts, but it works. Anyway, I tried this out, and it was actually quite usable. So I'm thinking that perhaps it can serve as a hilltop type of thing, because a handheld is not all that heavy to carry. And so I'm interested in trying that. Let me let it drop here. Beep.