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Interesting disparities there, I guess I'd say. My father was involved in electronics, too, but he was never interested in ham radio. He came out of the Second World War as an officer, retired, with no electronics background at all. But he took an electronics course from the Chicago Institute of Technology, a mail order course, get a lesson every week. And I was probably learning to walk about that time. He took that course, and I still got part of that course. It was two big, like a big dictionary-sized volumes of weekly classes. I've got the first set of it, and he never gave me the second set. I had no idea where they wound up going. But anyway, he was involved in electronics, but I didn't have any of the electronics at all until I had to get some involvement with PORC. So kind of the opposite of what your story is. You also mentioned the temperature. We have had a very cold season here. We had about two weeks of summer. Actually, one week, two different times of summer. And the rest of the season has been unseasonably cool. Tonight, and tomorrow night both, it's going to go down to the low 40s here, unless they've changed it since I looked this morning. It's been down in the upper 40s and lower 50s for the last week or so. And I do the night security walk here. So I've been wearing heavy clothes where I normally go out in shirt sleeves. So it's been an unusual year. This is our seventh year up here. It's the first time we've ever run into this kind of cold weather up here. So anyway, it's good to have you with us, and I'll let you expand on a little bit on doing a lightning round. We've got coming up now, we've got Jacob, W4TTS. Jacob, I'm not sure you've been on this deck before. So I'll say good evening to you. Welcome to our net. This is the RV Radio Network. We've got a club that sponsors the net. RV Radio Network is the name of the club. And you can go to rvradionetwork.com and look us up, get some information about us. We're all a bunch of hands. Most of us are interested in RVing. So over to you, W4TTS. Jacob, this is K4HM. Tell us how you got involved in Ham Radio.