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Okay, Marty, like you, we're going to Florida for the winter. We're wrapping up. This is my last weekend here, or last week, I guess. We've got three nights left. Come Saturday night, we'll be done. We have a festival here for the last closing weekend every year. Actually, the campground stays open for the festival. I guess is the right way to put it. And that's this weekend. So everybody will be pulling out of the campground come Sunday night, if not up to study during the day, I guess. And the campground will be closed at that point. Well, it won't be closed yet. They're still open for a couple weeks, but there's not much of anybody here once that festival is over. The seasonals still will be here, but that's about all. But anyway, we go down to Florida every year, as you know. And the club down there at Traveler's Rest is a great club. And I meant to mention to Gary, I meant to George, that I was a member, oh, I am a member, I'm a life member of the Raleigh Amateur Radio Club. And I was active in their board of directors for over 20 years. And they had a nice ham fest. I'm glad to hear you're going to it. And the next guy up, I'm sure, is going to be going to it also. Steve, NY4NC in Raleigh. You're up. We're talking about what you're going to do this year for the events for ham radio and RVA. So over to you, NY4NC from K4HM. Okay, 4HM in the net, NY4N. Charlie just got home, just finished with the traffic net and got over here just in time to get on. So good evening, everybody. Okay, now, let's see. First off, it's 69.8 at 90% humidity. It's clouded over now, so it looks like we're going to be getting some rain. And right now the winds are calm. Barometric pressure 29.95. Let's see. What else do I want to say before I get to the topic at hand? As far as you talking the remainder of this year, basically I don't have a lot specifically ham radio related for the rest of this year. But we are planning on going to the Friendly Bunch gathering in Sparta in October. Of course, this month we have our 50th anniversary. So not really, I was hoping we would do maybe a little travel, but my wife kind of thought just having something close to home would be nice. So we're going to have some stuff going on here. And then basically an in-person just a reception. And then we'll take the family down to the Angus Barn, which you being, having been in Raleigh, you know what I'm talking about, although some of the others might not know what the Angus Barn is. It's a destination restaurant for those not in the know. Let me break for a second. Okay. And now, upcoming though, I am looking to participate in hamcation down in Orlando. And so I think you and Celine go to that. If I, are you planning on going this year, Hank? If so, my understanding is it's best to show up on Wednesday the 11th. And then do you check out on Sunday or do you stick around until Monday? Just was trying to figure out to know how long to set for. And then how do we coordinate getting together? That's the other question I have. So hopefully I've been waiting for some information to come out because I've been wanting to make the reservation. But I wanted to make sure I knew that I was making it the right way first before I actually pulled the trigger on buying the, because that's a lot of money to spend. So, you know, about $350 for the RV site for those days if we stay through Sunday. Yeah, $70 a night. Which, comparatively speaking, I was looking at some of the other places there in Florida and it's pretty cheap in comparison, but still, it's not cheap. So, and what do you do before? Because, I mean, if you're coming from Travelers Rest, that's not so far. But what about for us? We're coming from North Carolina, so it's kind of hard. Either we get there on Thursday if we have to be there in the morning and find a place to stay overnight or if we drive down on, if we drive, well, okay, we have to leave Tuesday, I should say, not Thursday. But if we have to leave on Wednesday, then we won't get down there in time for the opening of the campground, so that makes it tricky. Anyways, I'm going to send it back to you so you can maybe enlighten me a little bit. Back to you, Hank, NY4MC.