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Alright, wait a minute. I saw K7PDZ Jim light up the node list. Jim, are you trying to get on the list? Well, of course I'll try to get on the list. Good try, you made it. Stand by there, Jim. Let's go back to Magoo out there in Covington, KK7Z, P-J. Good morning, Jack. Things are good this morning. I got an Amazon delivery early for some memory for my laptop and I'm going from 16 gig to 32 because it was starting to run a little slow. I think I might even put a new hard drive in later today. Yesterday we had a lot of fun. I had a perplexing problem. We've got a fairly small living room but my wife bought this huge sectional a couple years back. It was a down filled couch, very comfortable, but it took up the entire living room space. So we decided to cut out about half of it and of course it was the half that was furthest away so we had to go through the other half in order to get it out of here. I decided to cut it up with a reciprocating saw and sawed that sucker up into 8 pieces and it was a piece of cake. So that was a happy accomplishment. We put everything in the trailer downstairs and then I'm going to bring it to the dump probably later today or tomorrow. That was pretty cool. Let me pause. And then it's finally happened. The saga of the 3D printing. We got our new printer on Friday after trying another new one and sending it back. It's operating flawlessly. We've got a lot of accessories for it already and we're 3D printing accessories for it so we're going to really be in good shape. It's going to take me about a couple hundred hours to get all the backlog of stuff that we want to print. Just simple stuff like a winder to wind the filament from one spool to another all 3D printed with gears and it's really cool. So anyway I'm flying high as the 3D printing hobby right now. Back to you Jack. It's Magoo Kilo Kilo 7 Zulu Papa Juliet. Wow you are having too much fun with that printer and I know you said at the end of the day you can load with I think some accessory parts or accessories probably. You can load up to 16 filament. Is that right? I think you said 16 filament. I get three more units right now. I just have one unit of four but this printer does support three additional spool holders so that you can merge them all together. But I've learned that doing 3D printing with multiple colors also burns through a lot of filament because at every filament change it has to purge out the old color to make sure it's not in there anymore. Usually you lose about an inch and a half or so of filament and you're doing that in every layer or sometimes three or four times during a layer and you can lose just as much filament as you do putting it on the actual build. So that's an interesting tidbit. Single color you don't lose much filament at all. Alright well I'd like to see that bamboo printer of yours in action. Maybe get you a short video and post that up on the Facebook discussion group page. And something that is you know I guess well I guess interesting to the group maybe a ham piece of some sort you might have found on GitHub or Thingiverse. Alright well anyway have a good week. Great to hear you're starting us off today on the Monday morning net. Thank you, McGoo. Let's go talk to KJ7WQI. Matt, how are you sir?