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Okay, waiting just another moment there to increase the likelihood of success here. I have two hunches about cutting off at the front there. You're referring to something I had a problem with before where there was a setting on the phone, I think you are, that is used in some networks. It's kind of like a PL tone, it just kind of establishes that there's a transmission or a connection going on here. I don't think it's that. I thought I had noticed this a couple of times since I installed my new J-pol, which has a big old DX engineering coax out there. When I key up shortly thereafter is when my automatic fan comes on, on my Yeizu FT8900. And so I wonder if it's just taken a minute to like get the electricity, I mean a moment of course, and I don't know if something is exaggerating the delay before my signal is like fully activated, getting out through the new antenna with the heavy duty coax. That's the first antenna and or transmission issue on my head. And the other thing, someone brought up the idea of making your own antennas, which I am working on making a fan dipole. I got a one to one ballon and I got some wire and I'm going to be doing, I don't have an antenna analyzer, so I might have to wait, but I'm planning to set up a 10 meter and 6 meter dipole on my balcony, fourth floor, facing south. My hope is to hit other communities further on down the coast eventually with 6 or 10 meters, because I just have this little portable 4 band. Anyway, that's it, KI7RYW, thanks for the net, hello to everyone, good to hear the reports, KI7RYW. Alright, thank you, thank you for those comments. Well, first off, a fan dipole on 6 and 10 should give you all kinds of things. And 10 has been, not in the last couple of weeks, well that's not true, it's starting to pick up again. 10 has been very active, I guess 6 has also, although I don't pay much attention to 6. And so you should have some good contacts across the country, not just down the coast, but across the country and even across the oceans both directions. Japan loves to talk to the US for one thing. Anyway, you'll have a lot of fun with that, that's good. And the delay is, there's no delay involved in getting, well not discernible, involved in getting a signal off coax and into an antenna. That's got to be a setting on the radio somehow, or the radio doing something, because when you push the mic button you've got power. So, I don't know, I wish I could remember what that was called. Anyway, maybe somebody else will. And thank you, thank you. This is the 9 o'clock net for a Tuesday morning. More check-ins please.