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Double dark. You made me laugh. WQ7H, this is James. And HF is a challenge, especially 75, because, just because. Well, this morning, I'm getting ready to walk out the door. I've got a list of things to accomplish. First stop is going to be McClendon's hardware. I need to get some spade lugs, crimpy spade lugs. I need to build up some radials for a vertical antenna. That's ostensibly a mobile antenna that's really made for automobile installation. But I'm going to be using it for mobile or portable use, or on my deck, as the case may be, if I'm not portable. It's a Yaesu ATOS automatic antenna. So we need to build up some radials for it when it's not strapped to my car. And so I want to get some crimps for that. And so that's for the trip to McClendon's. And then I'm going to drop off our ballots for the election. I don't know who we're electing, but there's a number of ballot issues that we're voting on. And then I'm off to the Yakima Valley fruit market. I've got to pick up some Yukon Gold potatoes, and an onion, and some romaine lettuce, and a couple of beef steak tomatoes. My understanding is that the Yakima tomatoes are in. So we're off to pick up some local tomatoes. Yum, yum, yum. And then I'm going to go and pick up lunch for my daughter and my wife. And I'm going to get soup at the Chinese restaurant. Spicy soup, yay. And then I'm going to come home. And I should be in time for the new net with Jack. So that's my morning. That's what I'm up to. And yeah, I don't know what to do, what I can do to improve the situation with the Columbia net. Because I've got an antenna up, and it just, you know, I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Another antenna 90 degrees from what's there. Perhaps that might help. Some people can hear me really good, and some people can't. And there it is. I try. Well, yeah. WQ 7H, thank you, Bill. WQ 7H back to net. OK. Thank you, James. Well, as far as Columbia Bay's net is concerned, this time of year, you skip right over me, basically. I hear you, but you weigh down. But Skip's very active, and I have the same problem with others. Rick over in Everett, when he checks him, much the same way. People hear him just fine, and I don't. At least I do hear him, and at least I do hear you. So it's interesting. And the antenna, I don't know. To do the antenna right is sometimes pretty difficult to get it up a half-wave length. That would be the optimum. And anywhere between whatever you might have it at there is not necessarily going to improve anything. It might make it worse, in fact, depending on where the lobes are. So yeah, I think about changing my antenna. I don't. All right. Thank you, James. AB6MB. I'm sorry, hang on a second, Jeff. James, you were talking about lunch, and you made me think of mitzvah soup. I love it. AB6MB. Morning, Jeff. Bye.