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Alright James, I guess we'll have to find out when we see the live feed tomorrow with Josh at about 5pm. A hard time. Well hey, Tim's only 700 plus miles from the Tokyo Ham Fair. Maybe he could get on a jump flight and get over there and get us some details tomorrow. And then maybe get back on after he gets back. Or maybe live from the Tokyo Fair. What do you say about that there, Tim? How are you? Nice to hear you. KI-7 ZEI. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November, Quebec November. Also, notice that I would like to locate and then later be able to wash out a trim that needs an avocado tree trim that I've done several times. One of my favorite pastimes. Climbing trees, if you don't know. Yeah, Underwriters Laboratories. Man, that's over 100 years old. They're, I think, the first major city organization, you know, developing standards and so forth. You know, things like making sure when you plug in your 110 volt device into a 240 volt outlet that it won't go up in flames. You can't stick your fingers into any opening. It's going to cause you to get electrocuted or finger chopped off, what have you. Primarily, you know, electrical standards. There's some other areas that they get into. They are internationally recognized. Depending on the country, some places will allow devices that have UL, you know, certification. That's all they need to get into the country. There's also other regulatory standards such as CE, TUV. When England departed from the European Union, they established their own BIS. And a lot of these are kind of like the BS, where it's just an opportunity for the countries to, you know, require a standard. Then you've got to go through a big testing process and pay them a lot of money. So it's kind of a revenue grab also. Products that we sell are acceptable anywhere in the world. We've got like ten different regulatory agency stickers on there. And it costs money to do all that testing. It's not inexpensive. Well, I arrived in Seoul, South Korea. I left Tuesday night, got here Wednesday, you know, one day difference. 11 and a half hour flight wasn't too bad. Got some good sleep actually on the flight. A little bit of food, although airline food is not what it was 30 years ago for sure. I'm in a pretty nice little business hotel. It's an hour from the airport on bus. And then the factory is another like 20, 25 minutes away by bus. It is our point in South Korea that allows us to do assembly, calibration, testing, and shipment to customers in the US that are starting to say, hey, we don't want to be getting stuff from China anymore. So it's a work around. It's not easy or convenient. It doesn't save anybody any money. But that's the fact of the life. I've got a major customer, a major customer from the US that I know I've talked about a lot before, is coming for a visit today. And I've almost used up my time. I'll be giving a big presentation, very technical for a new project. And that's kind of fun. I'm having it. And then I will be back Saturday evening. KI7, ZEI.