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Have a great time and we'll talk to you soon. Let's go talk to Bill, K6PKL. Bill, are you out riding a trike or are you doing something else right now? Go ahead. I'm at my home QTH right now, so I'm up. And my audio level should have come down using this radio, so still a lot you need to tell me. By the way, you know, after me saying that I wasn't gonna do it, I bought another radio. And several years ago I bought TYT DMR radios. And so I decided there was time to do a little upgrade for my mobile, because I needed a screen on there that was more visible, you know, in a mobile. So anyway, so I bought an 80-tone DMR radio, a mobile, so anyway. So, you know, I'm gonna have to stop telling you, but well, I'm just not gonna buy another radio, because that just isn't what happened. So I think I was obsessed in a ham radio order, A6PKL. All right, well, hey, you have a great afternoon, Bill. Yeah, audio's still a tad hot, but maybe just crank it back a half a tick, you're probably gonna be fine. Well, I haven't said this on here for a long time, but you know, you remember James Bowen, right? Well, he has a license to kill. Hams have a license to buy, so there you go. Now, is the TYT DMR, is that the new radio? I have the newest mobile, it's called ATV578UV3 Plus. So it's the newest one that'll hold about probably about 100,000 contacts, and it's got all these fancy features in there, Bluetooth, and it's got all that stuff, you know, I mean, it's really fancy. So now all I gotta do is program it so that I won't use it as a tent. You know, the whole thing is I don't wanna be distracted by the radio when I'm driving, so usually what I do is I set it up before I leave the vehicle, use the parking area where we're just, so that's how I do it, and I leave it that way while I'm traveling, so I don't make any change that way, otherwise it's too distracting. But anyway, yeah, and you know, in California down here, they allow you to have a fixed radio in your vehicle that has a handheld control, K-60L. Okay, one last question. I know that if you buy a radio much like that, where in fact you can probably buy that one from them, from Broadcom, Broadcom will actually program it with stations that you would like and things in your area, of course, and all that, so was this a Broadcom purchase, or did you buy it somewhere else, maybe locally or what? Yeah, I bought it through Amazon, so I know it was them, but basically what I'll do is I'll take my other Antitone HTs, which I have a couple of them, and I'll take the code block out of those and move it over to this radio, and then I'll do some of the modifications, and this radio is totally on lock, so I can use it in areas that are not in amateur radio services, but that way, even though I won't do it unless it's emergency service, but basically it's a fancy unlock radio, you know, I bought it through them, and I can do all that programming myself. I've built the code block for my other Antitones, K-60L. All right, that's the way to do it, yep, that's great. All right, well, hey, I'm glad you're enjoying that. Yeah, thanks for cranking the audio back. That was just about right, I'd say. That was a great effect compared to where you started, so it's fantastic. Bill, you have a great afternoon. Nice to hear from you. Let's see if there's anybody else we're gonna do. Line us, call, 1-10 p.m. I'm Jack KI7R. I'm here for the new NEP here in Seattle and transmitting worldwide on the internet services. Anybody else, come ahead, call, sign, and name. Megan's on the list, anybody else?