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Okay, so the RV Radio Network, all eyeball rally, October 12 through 17 at Brawning Lake RV Resort, San Antonio, Texas. That's all the announcements I've got. We do have, I'll remind everybody, a topic every week. This week we selected the topic of how did you get started in amateur radio basically, how and why did you become a ham. So we have that for our suggested topic. You're welcome to talk. If you've got nothing else to say, then that's where to start. I'll remind everybody that we do have NetLogger running. I'll look us up on NetLogger to see where we are. You can look all of our nets up on NetLogger.org. If you have the application, you can use it and get all the information. We also get a list of current nets by going to, on the air nets at the live, real-time list by going to NetLogger.org and it's right there on our main page. We also do proof passes through and we use NetLogger to follow through the link on the second pass. We call that a lightning round, just a chance to get up anything you forgot to say or answer questions anybody else has asked. Ask a new question, whatever. Just tie up loose ends, goes pretty quick. All right, so having said that, let me get kicked off here with how I got started. I really got a, was working for the phone company and there was a job opening came up. It was a union job. I had to put an application in for it, put a bid in on it. And I had enough seniority to get it, but I had to tell people where to get it. It had to do with working on some equipment primarily. And there was some electronics involved with that, nothing real heavy. But it was enough to perk my interest in ham radio, which I had from my high school days. Some of my friends had ham radio licenses, but I didn't have money to buy any equipment, so I never went forward with it at that time. But now that I was a working guy for about five years and had a little bit of money, not a lot, I decided it was time to take a look at it. And that's what I did. I got my first transmitter with a piece of junk that was underneath the table at the Aitken Ham This is Recuter Station Kilo Kilo 7, November Quebec November. I brought it home and worked on it and picked it up and got off the air with it and the rest of its history. I got involved with radio at work and radio was a hobby. So that's my story. And let's see, let me reset real quick.