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Yeah, 33 May again and good evening there to Brooks as well. And yeah, it's going okay. The week is going very quickly again, can't believe how fast it's going in. It's currently 12 degrees in the windy, that's in the low 50s I think, in the sun height. And yeah, definitely been a seasonal change in the last couple of weeks and it's feeling like autumn. The leaves are everywhere and the colour changes have came as well. And it's very dark in these mornings when I'm waking up so early. Currently 5.12am here. But yeah, it's been a good few days. I have started practising CW again. I'm back to the basics, doing a letter at a time and trying to pack it out and all of that kind of thing. I'm trying to do it that it's 10 minutes a day that I fit it into my daily routine, besides it being too big a chore. I'm even setting myself a reminder this time to do it. Because I'm good to doing it for a couple of days, then I fall off the wagon and then it gets put to the side again. But if I set, you know, not a big hour or anything like that, just literally 5 to 10 minutes, even when I'm sitting watching TV or whatever, I can probably more strict it than if I set myself, you know, this big study thing. So yeah, I did a few letters last night and actually I'm not as rusty as I thought I was, I think. If I stick to the plan, I might be able to actually send quite relatively quickly. It's the reading of the CW that's always my problem and that'll be the bigger challenge. But I'll start at the basics and work along. Hopefully in the next six months or so, I'll be able to send a very basic QSO because it's something that I've always really wanted to do, but I've just not had the time to properly sit down and teach myself how to do it. So there we go. So that's the next kind of project for me. I have been playing about with the FT1XF. I've been programming it up. I've got all my repeaters in it now. I've been working on different software with the MacBook, trying to get things to work. It doesn't have complete cat control yet with all the software. All the software programs haven't yet caught up. Although I did see there was a bit of the action of WSGTX yesterday came out and I believe it was a couple of days ago this came out. That seems to have the cat control. I think I'll wait until the actual proper full version comes out again. The other thing I've been doing, working on updating everything to the new iOS 26. So far all's went well. Don't seem to have any major issues with that update. Sorry to take a quick reset there. I don't seem to have any major issues with the update to iOS 26 so far. I also think there's still a few issues. Anyway, thank you very much for letting me check into the net. I wish there would be a great rest of the evening there and a great Thursday when it comes here. This is Mike Mike Zero Romeo, still in November, back to net control.