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I don't know if you've heard of the 9am net, I'm not sure if you've heard of it, 9pm net I think because it's 5 o'clock in the morning. But yeah I'd had an internet outage so I was just programming both of those back in again and thought what else to do on PSRG because I popped on to Lake Washington yesterday so I thought I would share this out for about a couple of hours. But yeah I mean I talk about catnip as well, I remember that when I was my former partner when I re-sculptured the garden she was the plan wizard and she planted some catnip and we got forecasts and they used to go and lie in it. They were like zoned out, it was unbelievable to be thinking of it. All four cats were two very very old cats and two very young black ones, brother and sister and to find all four of them zoned out in the same place at the same time was unusual, yeah, remember those days. And I've been doing work on the shack, I've got some 3D printed like side straps that stop my 9700 and 7300 icons together into one little stack with a block in the middle that fits in between the two radios and keeps them apart. And then I had to order some longer screws and they were 4mm and I ordered 5mm so I had to go back to Amazon and order the 4mm by 12 next day. Finally put these all together, then realised I got the 7300 on the bottom and the shelf where I wanted to put the autotuner. The leaves weren't long enough so I had to take it all apart, swap it over so the 9700 is on the bottom and the 7300 is on the top. It looks fantastic and of course the grab handles are on top of that, the side straps, the stick head loops stick out to protect the front. It all looks quite snazzy, I've just got to pull all the wires back in again. And one of the strange things, the power lead for the 9700, I mean it was switched off when I was doing all the move around and when I went to switch it back on it wouldn't come on. And there's like two fuses on the power lead and the neutral one had blown, not the positive, the negative. There's a few fuses blown and the fuse holds itself, we changed that and it's all back up and running again now. But yeah, how do I put this? Well, it's a bit of a mess actually, in the entire globe it will never ever be finished. There will always be something else coming along. I've got my eyes on the new Icom 7300 Mark II because there's a couple of features on here which is exactly what I want, the Morse decoder and the ACMI socket on the back. So I'll just plug a monitor straight in. Oh dear. But what am I going to do with the one I've got, the 7300 that I've got? It's now the old model and the values have plummeted through the floor in the UK anyway. So through the enhanced new Mark II version, that was it, that was the end of the value of those things. Anyway, that's what's happening over in the shire. So we'll have to back to you Jack, 2-0 LRV.