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Nothing hurt. Okay, in that group I had VA7SL Scott with a recheck. I'll go to you right away. You'll be first. I also had VA3CDVCal, VE4JMP Mark, VE4AAP, uh, Trevor, VE4CA, Rob, VE7LWS, uh, Larry, VE4GWN, Gwen, VY1MGS Mike, VE4JCJ, John, and, uh, I think Victor Echo 7 Whiskey Fox was in there as well. So, uh, a large group here, loads of people in, in, uh, Mandotoba, but, uh, Scott, first VA7SL. Go ahead. VA7SL. Um, well, let's take this. We'll walk further out in the world. Why for this be a confirmed contact? Is this working? Is this working? Chris, okay. Yeah, you do have some sort of periodic noise with you. I'm not sure what that is, but, uh, we are able to copy. Yeah, I think it's other side of the show handheld is open. Sorry about that. I can't hear you. You can hear me there, secondly. Of course, it happens now. So, back in the 90s, I used to work SAP, and, uh, I'd say my furthest contact was Oscar 13 at Paraje, 40,000 kilometers away. I've heard that move out, so that would be further, but, um, that would be really my furthest out, but, gee, 40,000 kilometers. To this day, that is the coolest thing I've ever done this hobby, was hearing your signal bounce back off a satellite about a second later. That was fun. And, as far as receiving, I participated in a lot of hamster, but, um, I participated in the 90s. It was a Mars probe. Uh, it was on its way to Mars. It was about 500 million kilometers away from Earth, I believe, something in that range. And they had an experiment for amateurs to see if they could receive it. It was a beacon. And with dual boomers, 17 element, 2 meter, uh, no, sorry, UHF antennas and boomers, actually 33, double 33 element antennas and digital signal processing, they copied the beacon, and you had to send a recording. We didn't have, you know, UHF drives, but we had a recording, a super hard recording, I just had the tape recorded, I don't remember, but, um, we recorded it and sent it back for confirmation to usl. So, uh, that was pretty cool. Um, it was there. Scott, you definitely win for, uh, furthest received signal, absolutely. And, uh, that's a great satellite contact, too, going that far. I mean, I've heard myself come back from the ISS FM repeater when it's overhead, but that's, you know, that's only a few hundred kilometers. That's not 40,000. Uh, great stuff, Scott. Thanks for that. Boy, uh, that raises the bar here. Uh, Victor Echo 4, Juliet, oh no, sorry, who is first. Victor Echo 7, Whiskey Fox, you're up first, welcome to the net.