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Okay, I'm going to hunt the RF hotspot up here in my garage at 185 feet or so. My house is at 170, which is where I come in quite badly at, and my bedroom is really bad too. The southwest corner of my house is at about 165, 130 feet. So I like being up here and it's kind of coming back up on where the ground plane is. My yard actually makes me peg, magnolia receive really good if I'm down there next to the retaining wall down at 165 feet, kind of hiding behind my trees and my nature reserve. But I don't know where to begin. I got my mic and the cut off connector for the TR9000 Kenwood which is an all mode 10 watt or 1 watt CW upper and lower side band and 2 FM bandwidth modes. And it's 2 boards that are about 5 x 8. So it's user serviceable I believe, and the owner's manual and service manual are in the same document. And it's only going to make a 2 page schematic. So I don't know if it has board network but it's probably not even needed. So you can measure things, adjust things. I think I'm printing it and taking some normal readings of voltages around in different modes. But yeah, it's discreet enough. It's probably just got a supply and a processor on one board and then all the things that the processor, all the supplies that get turned off being control voltages to the RF board. And it just turns circuits on and off and stages on and off and gates over different modes. It's going to be a nice radio to have. I can't wait to get it running. Oh, and I bought it for $140. I'll stop for a second.