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Okay, let's take a break right there, that sounds good. Let me back up, pick up Daryl's recheck real quick. Victor Oscar One, uniform Keeloo Zulu, take it away. Thanks Dave, this will be my last one. I usually don't have much comment on these nets, but today, I don't know, just I heard the other station talk about modifying that little car thing that was intended for CD players, one of those little FM transmitters. And I played around with that a little bit years ago as well but couldn't figure out how to amplify it back then. And when I put a tiny little two watt VHF amplifier on it, it splattered, it went way up and down the band so you couldn't use that obviously. But I did use a little two watt amplifier back in the late 90s. Myself and a friend of mine who was also into electronics modified an old cordless phone. Remember those old ones worked on 49 megahertz grand clock? Had a big telescopic antenna. We had a little two watt amplifier and we modified the base station for one of those and put an external antenna on it. And I was up and outside my house, and I live on a hill, it's about 650 feet above the city. So down at the base of that hill, there was a park, like a park playground, swimming pool, that type of thing, where we all used to hang out. And nobody really had cell phones, especially the younger guys back in the 90s. We had beepers. And this phone could get about a five mile range after the modifications. So the base unit was at my house and I could take the cordless unit of it and it was a little Frankenstein, it had like the little amplifier on the back of it and a couple of double A's power in that. But it was only a small little two watt amplifier on the base unit and the handheld. And I could get phone calls from my landline down at the park about five miles away because it was a clear line of sight from the top of the hill where I live to the park at the bottom. And it was mind blowing to my friends back in the day that we could have a phone that was sitting on the picnic table, we could make calls with, it didn't have any minutes or anything like that to worry about. And I could also get incoming calls on the thing. And like I say, my friends back in the day were mind blown over that. But that was my last comment, talking about tinkering and modifications of existing products. But I don't think you can do that today with the 2.4 gig phones and digitally encrypted and spread spectrum and all this kind of stuff. But back in the day, 49 megahertz analog, lots of fun to be had. 73 days from here on UKZ. Oh, Daryl, I love it. That's great. I do remember those days, the little pull out antennas and all that stuff. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah, some of the old phones, yeah, you could definitely do that with. So there you go. Well, thanks, Daryl, for the comment. Much appreciated. And we will catch you later. And I will say once again, have a great rest of your Friday out there and on the rock. So we'll catch you later. All right, let's see what the end is up to, KB7RYY and what you got going on. Come ahead. Hello, it's Dan, KB7RYY, climbing the hill behind my house is all I am want to do. I'm at about a thousand feet now, I think. Anyway, there's Lake Washington, there's Bellevue. Hey, I'm gonna change the topic. I had something else talked about, but cordless phones. Anybody remember the ones that are down at 160 meters, like 1.7 megahertz? They operated on power lines. I, we used to live down in pure West Iberian. My folks lived on the water. I moved up the hill about a mile and a half away along I guess the same AC feature line. I could hear them a mile and a half away. Think about all the other people I could hear as well. Let me let it break. Okay, anyway, simplexed out, I've heard of that thing. You know, somebody changed the frequency from 14655 to 14656. And you know, I'm supposed to read the preamble tomorrow night, I just might go over to that frequency and see what Jeff says. JP7RYY. Hey Dan, thank you for that. Yeah, I do remember those, holy cow. Yeah, that takes me back a while, doesn't it? Yeah, all right. Yeah, give it a shot and see what happens. What the heck? Why not? Thanks for coming by and saying hi. And for those of you who don't know, Dan is also a net controller for the Puget Sound Boaters Net occasionally. And don't forget that meets at 7.47 every morning. And it's a formal roll call, but visitors are welcome at the end of the net. And it's always fun to get local weather forecasts and critter reports and fun stuff from the Puget Sound Boaters Net. So don't forget that's out there. Won't you know Dan would check in on the day that I forget to put that in my announcement. So there you go. Dan, have a wonderful day. Happy Friday and we will catch you later. Whiskey six, Foxtrot Delta uniform. What you got going on? Come ahead.