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All right, thank you, Steve. Well, we're going back to the top of the list. Kevin, V83, KKY, if you're still out there, you're up. And I know a few. This is repeated. Well, first of all, we'll give San Demel as a little, a little, a little job there, a little joke. And let's see. I have no idea. I'm thinking that I'm just kind of lazy and having trouble waking up. So how about making a mission in the afternoon? Maybe I'll go to the two-headed dog or something, grab some of those messy nachos or something like that. I guess the fish and chips place is closed. Maybe stop by one of the places and get some sugar cubes for my Tim Horton's coffee. And yeah, what is it? British style fish and chips isn't open on Sunday. So yeah, two-headed dog sounds good. They have really good nachos. I might get something for later and then for later. So yeah, I'm motivated to leave the house and do something a little later. That always turns out handy. And let's see, 10 minutes after 9, I quite a really sharp calculator. So I'm guessing I should be here when you sign out. And I can sign out with you. So yeah, everything's right with the world. And then maybe noonish, one-ish, I'll probably step out. And so my dad, he says wait till he gets home first. And so such as it is, I don't think he realizes people nowadays don't wait for you to be out when they break into your house. They do it right in front of you. So then in a little ways being unfair, he puts me to take the rap for it. So I don't know. I guess I'm superhuman. Anyways, OK, we'll figure that out. Let's pass it back to us super next to the A3CKY. Gavin, you're going to beat the rap, I tell you. You're going to beat it. So yeah, when you're the only one left, you get left with all the blame. No one to split it with. But George, thank you for helping out George with the question there. I think somebody has the answer. And it seems like you're coming through on an Echo Link, I think an all-star Echo Link. I think you're going to get a note there. I figured you might have one. So I'm surprised Darryl didn't speak up. He might have been distracted, or he might have been out getting his shot. But it's over to you, George. If you got a question, I was just trying to wreck my brain, trying to think of another question to keep people's interest active and alive. But for now, it's over to you. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate that. I've been messing with the digital side for like 10 years. And I'm still out to lunch on the all-star side. You know, I have the note already, and I'm learning a little bit, a little bit. It's most definitely a more complicated system than it would be for, let's say, Fusion or D-Star. Not so as complicated as if it was DMR. But I read an article the other day from another ham talking about Fusion. And that's my go-to. I like Fusion quite a bit. But Yizu is kind of moving away from Fusion in certain ways. Like, for instance, they used to have very low-cost repeaters. You could buy one for roughly about $500 or $600 if you were a club. And now they've discounted that program, and they haven't come up with a new price for the repeaters, but they're speculating over $2,000 for the repeaters. And then they've come out, and they've dropped almost all the radios when it comes to Fusion, except for that 500 series that they have out and then the FT-5 and the FT-70. But everything else that they come out with is analog, you know. And so people are questioning if Fusion's kind of giving up on things. Let it drop for a second. The most popular one right now for digital communication is DMR. By far, it's growing faster than anything else. But if you're interested on the digital side, you know, I recommend more than anything else and see what everybody else is using in your neck of the woods. Here in the Kansas City area, it's most definitely Fusion. And D-Star and DMR, P-25, all that is just nonexistent. They say they have some repeaters here, but they're not operational. Whereas you go somewhere else in the country, it might be D-Star that's the most popular thing. So I'd recommend loading up your node for D with D-Star, you know, and also having a D-Star radio. So I wish, to be honest with you, that all radios did everything. You can do the digital modes, or you can do the analog side, or you can do all the, what do you call them, my mic's going blank now, but it's just not, you know, whatever radio you buy is going to be the radio of the, you know, D-Stars, and that's what you're going to use is D-Star, unless you have a node where you can cross-band over from D-Star to, you know, Fusion or something like that. It just, we need to get more, you know, uniformity in these modes. I think DMR is probably going to win out more than anything else at the end, but we'll have to wait and see. One more reset.