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This is KN4LBS, this is D. Sorry Russell, I was walking away from the computer and then I heard my call sign, I'm sorry. I'm doing pretty good this morning. I went to the Ham Shack today, the one in my area, and they were doing something very interesting. They were doing DRS, which is Disaster Release Services. What this Kings Point is doing is, there's a disaster, they have, I guess, operators, ham operators to assist. Come to find out, because I'm sitting there listening to the call downs, they have over 800 DRS agents, so called agents, to assist in disaster in this compact area that I have here, in the map. I find that so interesting that they're able to accomplish this. They were doing sequence, they were recording all radios. Every radio was checking in. I'm sitting there, these voices checking in, 101 checked in, 100, 200. It was just amazing in sequence. It took about an hour, I think about 45 minutes for 800 or something people to check into the DRS. I find it amazing that. I'm going to look into it because they said they give you a radio, but you have to pass a test. I need to find out if the test you have to pass for that is your ham test or is it an additional test that you have to do for them in order to get into the DRS. So anyway, that's what happened yesterday. I was, you know, met up with some people, my ham shack that are, you know, I guess every place things, people come and people go, so there were new faces. Very interesting, very interesting. This is KN4LBF.