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Well, good evening, Ben, and first off, I usually want to wait a little while to see what happens on the net, so that was quite a long pause. I said, why not? I'll give it a go. And it worked! Five watts into this crazy antenna this evening, which is an old vintage stand with a music stand on top. And yeah, I posted a picture, and yeah, the fan, I made a note under the picture there, but the fan is indeed vintage. Yes, it worked, but it wouldn't pass any safety standard today. There's nothing there that would keep your fingers out of it. Anyway, other than that, boy, I did some outside work with my new lawnmower, and I am impressed because I went from an 18-inch to a 13-inch, and I was able to get from an 18-inch to a 13-inch. Now, you would think that would be a serious downgrade, and it is in some ways, but I found out this smaller machine, it doesn't bog down when mulching like my old one did. So, it's actually working better than the old one, even if I have to make a couple of extra passes. And it's so light, it makes it really easy for an old guy like me. Back to you, K-3-0-8. Hey, well, thank you for the rotary update. We have two spinning updates from you. We have the vintage fan. Thank you very much for that. I'm going to go hunt that down. One of my favorite things about BSRG probably is your various antenna. I actually explained that to someone when they asked me what the heck it is that we do on ham radio, and I said a big part of it is tinkering, and I talked about your antennas, and they thought that was very cool. And yeah, it actually makes sense that the lawnmower with the smaller blade would have effectively more torque, I guess. Because yeah, the thing that is getting bogged down in is because it has way less mechanical advantage once you stick the blade way out there. So, cool. I'm glad that worked out, and thanks very much for rescuing us. We almost had a non-existent net just intro straight into outro. I wouldn't have done that, but yeah, thanks very much. We appreciate it. All right, let's go right into check-in number two. Gail, how are you tonight? K-0-E-C-K.