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All right, all right, well thanks for being with us, Rich. I understand if you need to go, I do that from time to time. I am starting my work day, typically starting on Fridays between 8 and 9. It's 8.30 and I actually logged on about an hour ago just to see if there's anything pressing. So there are times when I'm actually, peace out, I got to go too. So I get it, I get it, I get it. All right, we're going to move back up. Well, let's call, I'll tell you what. We're going to talk about some news real quick and then we'll move into politics one more time. We're going to talk about ham radio news and that's what we're talking about, right? That's the topic, ham radio. So in the news, as of yesterday actually, there are some things like the U.S. import tariffs are delaying radio equipment deliveries. I knew that was going to happen. If I remember that, most of not pretty much all of our ham radio equipment comes from overseas, right? I mean, Kenwood's an American brand, but I'm willing to bet it's still manufactured overseas. So yeah, I could see where the tariffs were going to make prices even harder on ham radio people. I don't know if anybody knew BA-MATECH, Marcus Bassler. He's a silent key now. His call time was Delta, Lemo 6, Yankee, Yankee, Mike, DL 6, YYM. The next piece of news is Canada's ham radio news. It is Strict Key Month. The event is currently live. That's a good thing for you CW people out there who, I guess you could do it in Canada or the United States, but are y'all taking part of the Strict Key Month? Let's see what else you got. ARRL CEO David Meinster appeared on the DX Mentor podcast to discuss recent developments, including the Huntsville Ham Fest and legislative advocacy. Guys and girls, we need to pay a lot more attention to the legislative advocacy. We are losing ham bands. If you're not familiar with that, we can talk about that. Gray can talk about it at length, I believe also. Here in the United States, we are at great risk of losing more and more of our ham radio bands. And the batch filing system for the FCC has gone down, impacting licensing real close. So if you're trying to renew your license, get a new license, something like that, you may be having some issues with it for the next few days. So yeah, that's kind of what's going on ham radio news. I don't know why, but yesterday I thought we should talk about ham radio news since we're talking about ham radio. There is a new piece of gear out. It's really weird and I haven't looked at it at all. But there is a new high performance mobile transceiver. It's AM FM, has seven color LCD. It is called the President Ronald. It's a 10-12 meter video. So I haven't really looked at it yet, but it did pop up. I thought, you know, you people who watch new videos, not like that. All right. I'm going to take colors. If you're interested in the