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Okay, let's keep it moving gently over to you. The E3FBX, thanks Kevin. No subway where I'm at, I'm in the middle of nowhere in Ontario. But I was in Montreal for 20 years and it was all BMW, bus metro walk. It's a great way to get around the city when you don't need a vehicle with you. I love them, they were great, a little crowded at rush hour but other than that they're amazing. Back to the DMR and All Star thing, I was more worried about running my own personal hotspots because I'd like to be able to get around the house and the yard with just a handheld. Just wondering, because I've only got my basic with honors, I haven't got my advanced yet, if I'm going to catch crap for running them as a local node slash repeater. Back to you Kev. Going to you Casey, were you to comment? You'll be okay, I break the rules all the time. I'm not trying to influence you, I'm just saying, if you're just, yeah you're using, I do the hotspot thing too but I do it different from you. But in explanation of what you're doing, before I pass it to the next station, you're just basically tethering with your phone or wherever your hotspot is, which whips you like a phone. That's totally fine, if you use it to run All Stars, that's fine, if you use it to run Echolink, that's fine. Where it isn't fine and where I've broken the rules is when you cross band on regular FM, like 2 meter cross band. You have to be advanced to do the fun part of it. You don't have to be to do the boring part of it. Okay, the boring part of cross band is maybe HT to HT, when nobody hears you. The fun part of it is using your external antenna and turning yourself into a repeater and cross banding yourself into Japan. You have to be absolutely advanced for that. And then the other one where you have to be advanced, although people told me there's revisions on this, so you guys might know this better than me, my knowledge is 31 years old. Well, if I go back to when I was first licensed, I was licensed in 94 before the OJ trial. Anyways, so he's still on the run. So, it was before they said you better let him walk or else this place will burn down. But anyways, kind of different from the Rodney trial. But anyways, the other point to make note of is if you run a node on Echolink and put it on FM. If you put a node on FM from Echolink and you're controlling Echolink with your HT, if it's mad short distance, you're allowed. But once you get, like if you run it with your external antenna, like let's say you got a UBS 300, about 30 feet up in the air, you know, it's like an Antron 99 except for 2 meters though, then that would be a no-no because then others can access your Echolink node. So, if you wanted to like let's say bring your Echolink node to Niagara Falls from Toronto, no. You can't do it without advance. You have to be advanced. That's where the Americans have the edge over you because they can do all this stuff with their techie license. They can cross band and they can run long range nodes on Echolink. But with the license we have, I'm a basic Morse code. So, it's almost about the same as your basic with honors. I just got mine before yours and they called it something else. It's HF privileges but you have the short chain from the advance. Now, if they have, I've been told that there's new rules now for Echolink nodes. And so, if that's the case, someone has to drop that to me because I don't know it fully. I got in trouble a few times for running my cross band node just simply because someone from far away keyed into it. And then they got on my ass for it. I still ran it anyway. Screw them. I don't care what Gary, BE3TOT thinks. He could go eat a fat one. That's what I think. And so, see, I remember stuff. Yeah, he wrote up on me about it in the 2000s and I remember. I remember everything I talked to everybody about. And he outed me on the OAK machine and just kind of made an ass out of me in front of a few people. But since at least two out of the three of them in that Fuso are dead, I no longer feel like that. But I'll do something for him one day. I don't know what it is. Maybe whizzing his corn flakes or something. But I'll get back to him one day. Don't you worry about that. Maybe if I hit skid row, I might have to snuff him. Alright. D. D, over to you.