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This is KFI, I've echoed Charlie Echo, Tom in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Why did I get into becoming a ham? About ten years ago I was in South Texas for a meeting and someone cut the Ethernet main line to South Texas because I talked to the guy at a ham fest who was called by the FCC to repair. And I was down there and it was just amazing to see the people who were panicking. First of all, because the Internet was cut, there was no electronic transaction so anybody who wasn't doing cash had to shut down the business for the day. And nobody's cell phones except for 911 would work. And it was a perfectly clear day in Texas. And to see the people who were panicked because they couldn't talk on their cell phones, I said to my wife, I said, I don't ever want to be like this. I've got to learn about ham radio. And that was about ten years ago. And then five years ago I belonged to the county medical reserve corps as just a worker and stuff like that. And they held a technician's license course. So I took that and then joined the county ham radio association and then get my general two years later and stuff like that. So that's how I got into radio. And now here I am playing digital on my laptop computer right now through Echo Link. And that's pretty neat using a DV drive and everything else like that. So it's amazing, fascinating the different ways that you can talk on radio. I do the submarine veteran's net in the morning and then get on digital a whole lot in the afternoons and the evenings. So that's my story.