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And yeah, doing peer-to-peer on WinLink is a fine art, but if you follow Christian's instructions, it works. I have a question for you, though. What is this Skywarden training? What is that all about? So basically, it goes all the way back to, I think, the 50s or so, before there was radar and things like that. And basically, they would just have people signed up if they saw weather of any sorts, basically, you know, greater than a breeze. You could call it into the National Weather Service and report it, and then that's how they would actually issue warnings. Obviously, we have to operate on all sorts of hand things now, so not as necessary, but they still have all these people out there who basically leave their tail. You can call and report the size of the hail, if there's lightning, storms, whatever. If you see a tornado, which hopefully we won't ever see what around here, you can call that in and report it. And then they actually use that information.
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