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Yeah, AB6MB from VK3K returning. Good stuff, Jeff. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's exactly right. And, anyway, so I guess I'm just trying to prepare for the future, I think, the more IP decisions we have. And, of course, because I've got... My repeater runs off a Raspberry Pi 3B Plus. My transportable node, which has the ham VoIP image, runs off another Raspberry Pi 3B Plus. And the two ASL nodes, the Horst-Arling nodes, was designed by a friend of mine who came up with his own design. And it works also externally. The two recent nodes that I've done will be using a DellWise computer, a DellWise PC, instead of a Pi, much cheaper. I'll have to send you a picture. The DellWise, it's in a nice black pelican case, and I've got an N-type connector, female N-type connector on the side with a little patch cable which goes straight to the transceiver. I'm using a Simico SRM 9000 radio, and it fits very well. Tim was the designer of this, gave me the wiring diagram and the pin layout, and I soldered that up, that type of thing. And the good thing is, with the DellWise computer, they run on a voltage from about 19 volts down to 10 volts, I think. I think they go as low as 10 volts, Jeff. So having a common, same voltage, being 13.8, to power the radio, it powers the DellWise computer, not a problem. So no need for any type of conversion or anything like that. It's all the same voltage, unlike a Raspberry Pi where it runs off 5 volts and you've got to have a separate supply for it. Back to you.