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Alright, I'm not hearing D, but I was reminded that I forgot Daryl, so I apologize. We'll cap Daryl and then we'll go back to D. So, uh, you know when you're kidding me. Go ahead. So you said the question was if you could go anywhere with ham radio or something? Go over your question again, Bill? I was just putting on some breakfast. Well, don't put it on. Cook it and eat it. Putting it on, that's kind of weird. Um, yeah, no, the question was if you could travel anywhere in time with a ham radio, where would you travel? And, uh, so you could listen to what's going on with you back in the past and listen to ham radio traffic in the past. Or would you go to the future and listen to what ham radio has to offer in the future? Go ahead. Well, I think I can stick around for a few years yet and find out what's going on in the future. But, uh, man, I'd like to go back to ham radio in the, probably the 70s, I'd say. Because everyone was so active back then. And, uh, you know, CB radio even was incredibly active back in the 70s. I wouldn't mind going back and having a listen to what was on the airwaves back then. And that's what I would like to do. But, uh, man, we got a nice day. I'm shafing up here. It's not really warm yet. It's 23 degrees. It's, you know, warm enough. But, um, it doesn't feel hot like outside like it did yesterday. But, um, what was I going to say? Oh, Josh mentioned the, uh, the deep search research. I was doing that on Gemini last night as well. But I had it researched myself. And it was a very long report, but it didn't give me much information. It told me how I wasn't listed in like a whole bunch of places that I had searched. And I thought maybe, you know, it should leave that stuff out. The things that I, were things where I wasn't mentioned. All I really found was my social media profiles, a little bit of my family tree, listed a bunch of my relatives, found some obituaries with people with my last name. Uh, but that was it. Never really found, uh, you know, anything about drop-in or ham radio or any of that stuff. You would have thought it would. Um, you know, pretty much searching the whole internet for, you know, your name or whatever. Um, so I thought it was pretty cool. But I didn't realize you could ask it to show you pictures of like your town back in the day. I wonder how many photos, archive photos there are of, uh, old St. John's. Um, because I'd like to check that out myself now that you got me thinking about it. I mean, I've seen some pictures, you know, back in the day, but not a whole big lot of them. And I'd love to see some, you know, uh, early 1920s Newfoundland or something or early 1900s Newfoundland. Because I bet things were quite different, uh, back then. I mean, back in the 1800s, back in 1891, um, St. John's almost burned to the ground. Um, it was a lot smaller over town. Let me reset. This is repeater station Kilo, Kilo, St. John's was a lot smaller over town, uh, back in 1891. And the majority of it, uh, burned to the ground, uh, for a big fire. It was, uh, CLV Armory fire, the downtown fire, the great fire. That's what they called it. I don't know what was so great about it, you know, if everything burned to the ground. But I know they mean great as in a reference of size. But, man, all the buildings were of course made of wood, you know, back then. And all connected together, like, you know, like big strings of buildings and houses and stuff. So you can imagine where those caught fire, the whole thing was going up like a tinder box. And that's exactly what happened. It, uh, was a little out of hand, I guess. And then 100 years later, exactly 100 years later, the downtown area caught fire again in, uh, 1991. And, uh, a bunch of buildings burned, um, in the downtown area that year too. But they weren't all connected together anymore and a lot of them were made of concrete. So the damage was mixed. But I know from all reports from the great fire of 1891, um, it was rough. You know, a lot of people were left homeless, a lot of businesses were burned down. And, uh, it was just a catastrophe. And, you know, firefighting equipment and stuff back then was a lot less than what they had in the fire of 1991. Uh, that was the CLB Armory fire at Churchlands Brigade. Um, they had a propane leak, I think is what they, let me reset again. I think it was what caused that one. Um, and once the propane tanks blew up, it was, uh, there was no stopping the fire. And I can't remember how many businesses got burned. It was like maybe 10 or 11 businesses up and down, uh, two sides of the street. So, yeah, it was a pretty bad fire. I'm going to do a deep search now on, uh, the history of St. John's back around the turn of the last century and see what it comes up with. Thanks for the idea on that one, Josh. And I'm going to tell it to include all archived photos, or any relevant archived photos that it can find. So, um, back over here, Bill. And I'll be here via one of you, Casey. All right, very good. Yep, didn't think about doing that, but it's given me some ideas for myself. So I'm going to have to check that out. So, thank you. Thanks, Josh. And, uh, with that, we will try for Dee again, see if she's still here. Uh, KN4LBF from N9OFU, if you're still here, it's your turn. This is KN4LBF. This is Dee. Yeah, I want to be here for the rest of the week. Um, I'm out for the week. I have to stay home. And, um, that's an interesting question, but I don't, um, I would want to go into the future, but not in, in, so I would say this, don't beat me up now. I would rather go into the future of South Korean technology because they have a cutting edge infrastructure when it comes to that. Yeah, for now, right now they do. Um, right now, and, and, and as an experience, you know, all my walkie talkies and whatever equipment I have, like my Baofeng and my Ye Su, they're not from here. That's for sure. And, um, any other equipment that I look at the tag, it's, it's that it's, you know, it is what it is, but yeah, I would, I would like to go to the future. And, and when it comes to like, um, like, um, Japan has, is well in advance when it comes to robotics. So yeah, I mean, you know, if things get rough or technology gets all messed up, we'll go back to Morse code, I guess. But I don't know, but that's my thing. I like the future. And this is K and four LBS. This is Steve back to the net. All right. So do you would like to go to the future of ham radio and see what's going to be available in the future? You know, if you go in the future and find out what's available, come back, you can make a killing. If you've got the know how to make that, make that in the money. Because, uh, you know, if I went into the future, I probably try to memorize a couple of the, uh, the lotto numbers and, uh, uh, changed my destiny. But, uh, at least she knew who was next. So when I called her, she, she stayed quiet. So I could go back and get her other. So, uh, thank you, D. And we'll catch on the 73 route. So let's go to E3 FBX from N9 of you. Go ahead, Ben. This is E3 FBX. I think I'd want to bounce back to the past and the seventies, eighties. Uh, time I would have liked to have been involved more in radio, um, was a young teen in the middle of nowhere. Didn't have access to much. Um, when I got into the Air Force, we were playing with older equipment. Uh, just being the Canadian military, we run old equipment. Um, I think it would be very interesting to get into the building and, uh, and I think the better time for amateur radio. Um, back to you. Go ahead, big event. And, uh, there's one for the past and, uh, check out and see what's going on. Yeah, that'd be another thing. If I could go back to the past and, and talk to myself, uh, when I was a kid and say, hey, uh, you're missing out. Get, get in on this ham radio thing. Learn Morse code. Cause this is the time that would be easier, uh, rather than trying to learn it when you're older. Uh, I think I would, uh, go back and, uh, get myself interested and, uh, make it happen. And with that, we're going to go to, uh, W a six ABC. Mike, you're up. And I know if you W a six ABC returning using a headset this time, hopefully it's a clear, I think this one's a good headset and, uh, yeah, I'm going to vote one for the future. I was around during the seventies, uh, during the CB radio craze. In fact, we had a CB radio club here in a Rockaway and a couple of us on the more nerdy side studied for our ham radio exams. And, uh, I got myself on my, my dad bought me a Halicrafters, uh, transceiver with relays that would lock up. So I get locked in transmit mode, have to hit it on the side rather than just spraying the relays, which is what I would do now. But, uh, yeah, that was a fun time. I got two SL cards from all over the world. Talk to people in Russia and just the thought of talking to somebody in Russia from, uh, from my bedroom as a kid was, uh, was amazing. But, um, I did all that. So, um, going to the future would be fine, except I'd have to participate in the future of technology because chances are if I go into the future with a radio that's current, I'm going to be able to do that. Chances are they're going to be using technologies that, um, are not developed yet. So, uh, I'd have to get myself a, a new radio, whatever they're using for communication in the future. And I think it would be fascinating. Yeah, Bill, I understand that, uh, going into the future, if you remember some lottery numbers or even the technology, you can make a killing, but, uh, yeah, you, you, you do that, then you affect the timeline. So the future is not going to be the future anymore. If you've watched all those science fiction things about delving into the past, as soon as you come back, if you use any of that knowledge that you've gotten from the future to affect your present, you're going to change the timeline. So the future won't, won't stay the same. In any case, yeah, I'm going to vote for the future. And I think it would be fascinating. I think it's an age thing too, if you've been around this earth for a while, you don't want to necessarily go back. You want to, you want to head for the future because you're not going to be around for the future. And, uh, you've already been around for the past and it was fun. The seventies and the eighties were fun for CB radio and amateur radio. Send it back to net. I don't know if this is last round or not, Bill. Uh, and I know if you W a six ABC back to net. Nope, not the last round. We'll go one more quick, uh, 73 round, uh, here. Once we get down to the bottom of the list and we're close to the bottom of the list. So, uh, uh, but yeah, uh, I, I was around during the CB stuff. My dad got into, uh, uh, all American react and our neighbor was a big in ham radio and, uh, or at least a CB radio and, uh, American react and things like that. But, uh, definitely, um, good, good times. I just, uh, uh, I didn't get as involved as I could have, and I, uh, um, uh, would like to go back and change that, but all right. Uh, Steve in zero VF, uh, you are up. This is not the final, uh, but if you got something more to add, uh, church.