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Thank you, thank you for hosting the net. KF-70K, Doug, near Linwood. Yeah, today was kind of fun. Anyway, you guys, I was kind of thinking back to when I had two rigs. I was licensed in, first got licensed in, 77, I've been licensed the whole time, but anyway. And my first rig was a Heath kit, and it had 20 tubes in it. So you had to turn it on, you had to wait like about five minutes before, well actually not that long, maybe about three minutes before you could hear anything. And back in those days when people ran the tube rigs, a lot of them were very broadcast quality. But then again too, a lot of them sound like garbage too, because they needed constant alignment. But it was fun to do that. I think ever since I got a Kenwood in, I think it was 1990, I never had to align one of my main radios again. The only time I ever done it was a vintage radio, which I still work on. Sometimes I get radios just to work on them, get them running, and then I give them away to hams that are just starting and stuff. The other little thing I did is I had this little timer, and I used to use this thing while flying. I had it that would go right on the control column. And it was a timer used during instrument approaches, and the clock would be, you know you'd have a clock for UTC and stuff. And since that's all, my flying days are long gone, I kind of repurposed it and have it in my shack here, and it was kind of cool. So I'm on the repeater and talking. I can tell you how long I've been transmitting. It took a minute and 43 seconds. And the clock function, I just have it on UTC, and I thought, you know, that would be a great addition to the shack. So I went ahead and put new batteries in it and took the double back tape off of it and everything. And I think it will be a nice little addition. Anyway, KF70K, back to you.