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Yeah, well just like Echolink, the rules have changed like where they've lightened up where you're allowed to be idle. It used to be a really big deal. Back in the days, there was one or two repeaters here in Ontario that I actually got blocked from just because I came on and I was idle. I guess lurking is probably the word they wanted, but yeah, I was idle. I wasn't really doing that on purpose, but yeah, I learned really quick, at least older days that they had rules about it. They seem to have laxed it in the 20 teens I've noticed. So yeah, now it's fine. It's common. You'll find 10 or 20 nodes on here on DoDropIn and no one has to account for anything. They're just there. I guess they do, right? I guess on a few of them if you call someone's name, but not usually. This is repeater station kilo kilo seven. I don't know. It seems like self-deceiting. I remember that time that it was with IRLP is the one I was using. And it shut me off after, I mean, I called my name and then nobody had answered. And I figured I'd hang around for a while, see if anybody comes in there. Some of them were ridiculous. Some of them were less than like three to five minutes and they'd just knock you off the air. I found that frustrating, so I just never bothered to mess with it anymore. I never really tried Echolink very much until a few years back. And it hasn't been too much of a problem. I do notice that if I connect my node to Echolink, the best I've been able to get is about 24 hours and then it kicks me off. I'm not sure why. Same thing when I hook up to Daryl's node, it'll kick me off almost every night. But after Daryl said that he reboots every day, that explains why I'm not reconnecting. Even though I have it set up, it'll try to reconnect. It doesn't. So yeah, it's getting better. It's getting better all the time. I noticed, I was reading an article yesterday and they were saying that they used to have about 3,500 nodes worldwide. And now they're over 10,000 nodes worldwide now on All Star. We thought that was pretty cool.