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So while all these public safety radio systems are very good and they have redundancy mode, so let's say something catastrophic goes wrong with the controller fails for whatever reason. It'll fall into a fail-safe mode. Obviously, everybody using the radio has no idea because a few times it's happened, the police have been, you know, you'll hear police officers come on and say, why is my radio beeping every 10 seconds? Well, to tell you that you're in fail-safe mode. But the point is it's still past traffic. They just revert it to more of a conventional mode. So more people could hear each other and there was a little bit more confusion, but the point is it still worked. One of the other things that the non-conventional radio systems allow is punch-through. So if you have a key open, a conventional system with a key open, you're in trouble. You can yell into your mic as much as you want, and that person with the key open will never hear you. Well, with these trunked radio systems, there are bypass modes where dispatching.