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Okay, I got 9 o'clock straight up. CQ CQ CQ calling the RE Radio Network. Multi-mode Echolink. The net control station for the day is K40 Kim. My name is Hank. My QTH is J-Town, Kentucky, just outside of what's called Louisville, Kentucky. This is the direct to net. Please address all comments and queries to this net control station. This net is sponsored by the RE Radio Network, but all amateur for the technician, class, license or hire are encouraged to participate. The purpose of this net is to provide a forum for amateur radio operators who share an interest in recreational vehicles to exchange information and stay in touch as they travel the country. We meet each evening, each Thursday evening at 8 p.m. Central Time on the Southeast Link Conference Dodes linked to the N4LMC multi-mode network. That includes W4EDP Echolink Repeater in Lookout Mountain, GA and the several repeaters in the tri-state area. And we thank Emmett Purdue and the Tri-State Amateur Radio Club for supporting our net with the use of their equipment. That really did a big help to us. For additional information about the RV Radio Network, please visit our secure website at rvradionetwork.com. And for information about the Tri-State Amateur Radio Club, visit their website at tri-states a-r-c dot com. As I said, there are repeaters on the network, so repeaters have timeout timers on their links. Let's try not to time them out. They are set for three minutes. If you're using the Windows Echolink application, there's a convenient timer up under the setup menu, Tools Setup. You can set the time out, transmit timeout timer there. I recommend you set it to 170 seconds. That gives you 10 seconds grace before it would drop the links. And it also will even give you 10 additional seconds of warning. So we'll actually give you a warning at that. If you set it to 170 seconds, it will give you a warning at 160 seconds, which will be some kind of a tone, whatever your computer is set to use. And if the window is set wide enough, there will be a little timer, 10 second countdown timer at the bottom left corner of the screen. So let me reset.