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Good morning, Grace. Good morning to everybody on the Cowabunga Inn. I hope everybody's enjoying their labor day there and not jealous at all. Yeah, it's been absolutely hectic, Grace, since I came back. I was on holiday end of July, came back. Work has been absolutely hectic. I've been on a lot of team's calls and just not being able to get onto the net and kind of been missing the net, getting on just as the net's ending and that sort of thing, so not getting the chance to call in. I did listen on and off when I could. I just didn't bother checking in because I knew that I couldn't stay on. But not great to be back in. I'm hoping this week at work things should be a little bit calmer. It was sort of end of year reporting time for me, so that's why it was all hectic and chaos. So there we go. Quite a busy weekend. On yesterday, Sunday, I actually had a hospital appointment and it was an eye appointment. So I have to have a procedure done in the next two or three months basically to remove some tissue on one of my eyes. Sounds a bit ooh, but it's actually quite a positive thing, I think. It will improve vision. So the sooner they get it done, the better. I've been having great fun with the SP-1XF. Absolutely loving the radio. I actually done my first POTA activation last Saturday, I think it was. Took it out just to test it at a local park near my QTH. Yeah, it did good. I went 14 metres. The conditions were poor on HS, but I still managed to make about 16, 20 contacts in the short time that I was on. So now I'm really keen to get into this CW so that I can really do my QRT. But fantastic radio. There are some quirks obviously, but they don't bother me to do one. I've run it on Optimize Rail. I've run it on what, 80 watts from the QTH too. And my audio reports seem to be really good as well. Haven't done any of the settings. I've left it as is out the box and yeah, everybody sent me, don't touch it, it works fine. So all good there. Anyway, this is MM0RKM back to neck control.