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Victor, Alpha 3, Victor with the extra returning. Okay, I got your call sign there. KI5, ZLion, right? VA3VWX returning. Okay, I misheard. I totally heard something different. Okay, you heard the Derby Fire. That's when that one kicked up. Yeah, yeah, that one's, um, where is it? De Cerro? I know it's east of Vail. Just north of I-70 there. Okay, so I'm not an expert on this, but what I can, from my experience with the alert system on the cell phones in the US, um, the, unlike placing a phone call, if your phone, you don't need it to be bi-directional, the cell service will pump out the alert message a number of times until you get it. So even, so as long as your phone can hear, um, the control signal from the tower, right, so the digital burst that tells it what channel to sit on, um, within that will be the embedded alert message, so you'll get it. So even if you can't place a phone call, so depending on your phone, the phone will try and ping the tower, and if it can't ping the tower, it can hear the tower, but the tower can't hear the phone, right? It'll show you no bars of service, let's say, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's not hearing the tower intermittently. So you're probably in a situation where your phone was hearing some of the signal from the tower, right? It was hearing a bit of the control channel, and, um, it heard enough of it that it was able to get the alert, but you just would not be able to place an outgoing call, right? It would never connect, so the cell, your phone was not affiliating with that particular cell tower, um, in that zone. So, does that make sense to you? Think about it like a bit of a trunk tracking system, right? Where the radio, being your cell phone, is not affiliating with the tower, it can hear it, but the tower can't hear your cell phone, so it can hear the control channel, it pings out to the tower, the tower isn't hearing it, so it doesn't, it doesn't, um, get the return ping, getting the notification that it's been heard by the system, but it can still decode, um, what's being sent out. Does that make sense?