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Okay Marty, you got a couple years on me it sounds like. I got my license in 73. So, what that was. Oh, we got a check in there. Now I got my 4NC just checked in with us. Could show on the list here shortly, Steven. Anyway, I got my license in 73 and likewise I had to take the code test when the FCC came to town, they came to Louisville every three months. The other wife I would have had to go to Chicago as well. But they came to Louisville every three months and the next time they came to Louisville, which was the following month, I remember right, I got my general. And the next time I came to town I got my advance. And then six months later when I came to town I got my extra and my commercial license all at the same time. That was a busy day. That's a long story how that day played out. Anyway, a long time ago now. That's what got me into the telephone company radio shop. I worked there for, in a shop there for a number of years. I've enjoyed all my time with radio. Don't do as much of it anymore today as what I used to do. It was pretty transistor era. My first radio didn't have, they didn't know what transistors were when it was built. But it was a piece of junk that was in 73 laying underneath the table. So, it was old already then. But anyway, I rebuilt that and I worked on, I never built a kit. I worked on a lot of kits that other people built and couldn't get to work. But I never built on, worked on any of my, built one by myself. So, I just didn't have the instant net or chasing papers or contests. I just liked working on the air. That did a lot of traffic net and then a lot of drive-tune nets. And that's always been my interest. Alright, see you next week Marty. Stick around, listen to me. If you still see you still connected, I'll call on you. That brings down, let me just renounce here who we've still got. We've got George, AD2IH. Donald, KI4ZS who showed up and then disappeared. I hope he's over on a network somewhere where he's listening to us. We can get in. And then we've got Steven, NY4NC has joined us now. So, Steven, you'll be number, you'll be third coming up. Right now we're going to go to AD2H, George from K4HM. Tell us how you got into hand radio George.