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Okay, fine, I didn't catch your call so I know your name. Anyway, the name here is Don and we're in St. John's, Newfoundland. And apparently the time is five minutes to four here at the end, St. John's. And how far have I gone for amateur radio? Boy. I'm licensed over 30 years. I enjoy HF, VHF, and UHF. The note I'm coming through right now is a repeater, V01XMT. And it's hooked into Wellesley. And it's a UHF repeater here in town. It's actually down the road. A friend of mine lives a few feet down the road, actually has the repeater in his house, V01XMT. And the frequency is 447.250. Anyway, I certainly enjoy VHF and UHF. And I've recently tried APRS. And liking that, it's not a traffic or activity, most everybody being in it. And that, but I like that and I'll get into it further and take off the training wheels and let it go. Hi. And I've been a member and I'm the Vice President of the Avalon Radio Amateur Club, AVRAC in Rad Rock here in St. John's. And we're an official Red Cross amateur radio group. We provide a lot of the communication over Canadian Red Cross when they're called out, if we're needed, and stuff like that. And I've also hosted a repeater here for a number of years. I'm going to be putting it back again now pretty soon. It's a commercial repeater for the Canadian Red Cross. And I had it at my house for years and years and years. You look at my QRZ page, V01XH, and you'll see the picture there. You'll see the picture of the antenna for the repeater. It's one of those Sinclair commercial antennas, SRL201C. And I got it up there now about, I'd say about 25 years. Since 2001, actually. And I've hosted that repeater for a good many years. We took it down there a few years ago. And we were going to reinstall it at our clubhouse, but we didn't. Let me break here for a second. You don't want to catch.