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Hey Jack, that will be a lot of fun to do and I think it will be informative. Let's do this. I just got back to the yard here in Lacey. Hopefully it will help more people get on satellites with some modest equipment and be able to operate. It's a lot of fun. Speaking of projects, I put together my All Star node. It took a little while because I had to kind of master at least the Linux commands I needed to use. But it seems to work good. I tested it last night when I got home. I was going to check in the 9 o'clock net and man, you guys get a pile up. It was real busy and I'm looking at the clock thinking, hey, 4.3 is going to come really quick. I thought I will have to try that later. Anyway, I built it with raspberry pi and a sound card device called an AIOD. I'm trying to remember all. Let's see. I can't remember what the acronym stands for. Basically, you can connect different things with it. You can use it for APRS with dire wolf, that kind of thing, packet, whatever you like. It works pretty good. It does pick up some RF noise. So I had to separate some stuff and I had to put ferrite rings on stuff and what have you. But it works pretty good. Let's turn that down. We've got in Lacey, it's kind of hazy out, but it is sunny. It's probably in the mid 70s or later. I did want to mention something else.