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Alright, well, Chris, so many things that you mentioned to talk about. Firstly, welcome to Ham Radio. It's a wonderful hobby. I started Ham Radio in 1970 as a 13 year old. And then I let my original mom's license expire because my parents were going through a bitter divorce and it took me 20 years to get back into Ham Radio again, but I did. That was about 30 some years ago. And I'm one of the experimenters, you know, like an amateur scientist. I love to design antennas and I like QRP because it's kind of like seeing how far I can get with the least amount of power, you know, which is my gig, I guess. And we have these nets on this repeater. Put a bookmark on this because this is a 2-meter FM repeater. We also have a 6-meter FM and a 70-centimeter DMR repeater that we run. And I'm trying to give you the Cliff Notes version here. But this repeater went in the air like 53 years ago and right in the 70s, people started doing the 9 o'clock nets, which were very, it didn't start as a very elaborate social net. It started out as more of a health and welfare live aboard check-in net where they check in on each other. Very humble beginnings. They are live aboard and they check up with each other in the mornings. And now we have three social nets every single day on this particular repeater.