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From GWA desk, it's just like people who come back into a ham radio after a 20 year break when they used to, when they left for whatever reason, just RF repeaters and put a call through repeater and say, over here in the UK for example, and somebody in the US comes back and they're thinking, how is this possible? I'm on my local two meter repeater. They hadn't even, of course they didn't have any internet assisted repeaters back then when they left. I hear that quite often there Roy, and I suppose you do over there in the US as well. KI7PKL, GWA S-10. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven, November... Yeah, I left this hobby as well. Just life responsibility and had to really focus on family and getting through those hard years. I just couldn't afford to be, always trying to come up with money for hobbies and stuff. I gave up astronomy and ham radio. Ham radio was down for about 35 years and astronomy came back about five years later after maybe closer to 40 years. It was quite the culture shock with both of them. Ham radio, I remember going to a seminar at our church camp meeting actually and that was what pushed me over. That was another one waiting to happen too. Way too long, I should have got back into the both of these ways sooner than I did. I remember the guy was talking about this thing called Echo Lake. I'm checking to a death for my phone, seriously? Yeah, and just so many other things that were science fiction back in 1980. They're pretty common place today. Pretty exciting stuff. With astronomy, there's no way you can do deep sky astrophotography from the city where I am now. There was absolutely no way you could do that back in 1980. Even with your nebula filter or whatever, no way it was going to really happen. It was just a horse head nebula from my backyard. You can barely see birth, second magnitude stars and I still image the horse head nebula because we have the technology now. It's pretty amazing stuff.