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Yeah, well, to my understanding... I've kind of been wanting to make one, Jeff, but I've got so many things that I want to do. I need to erect this 160-metre vertical first before I even play around with anything else 160-related, but as far as I know, they're fed with balance line and it's like a dipole, but it is fed with balance line. So, um... But, yeah, I've never bothered to look into the specs too much, Jeff, to be honest, but that's what a lot of them run at Marconi Tees. So, yeah, but... But pretty much a lot of them on this net run verticals because obviously, once it sits here, it doesn't go as far during the day as what it does at night time. So, um... So, during the day, it's all about your ground losses. So running a vertical with lots of radials to try and eliminate your ground losses. So as you get out a bit further on 160 during the day at night time, at the band, it propagates completely differently. You can work interstate, not a problem, at night time. They're like 80 metres. Very much like 80 metres. Um, yeah, a lot of the guys, a lot of them run vertical, and it's all about the counterpoise to try and reduce those, the ground losses. So it makes it harder with an antenna large. You need room for radials and you need to be relatively close to the guys to work. Where I live, it's just too far away and it's pretty... It's not impossible, but it's hard to do. AB6MB, VK3KK. Um, yeah, I guess you are dealing with verticals. You know, some way you can, you know, with the capacity hats, other tricks like that, you can, you know, give you a chance for working guys out of the area. Yeah, I can't get it. Yeah, so yeah, by doing that, you can cut your losses down and then try to get enough power left over to get out there and then work the different stations. Yeah, good job, though. Yeah, like I said, I don't know if anybody really talked to it, actually. It works 160. And you describe what you're doing, it just all sounds like really good engineering on the antennas. So yeah, definitely you need a vertical instead of a dipole, you know, because that's just going to be really low to the ground and most of your, you know, radiation is going to go straight up around a vertical, you know. They'll come out at least somewhat of a decent angle going out that way. Yep, yep, good engineering there, Sean, AB6MB.