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Yes, K4HM, VK2DY, Robert in North-West in Sydney, where it's currently 25 degrees Celsius, which is about 78 Fahrenheit, something like that. Anyway, it's only 1144, so it's definitely going to get warmer than that yet today. So, definitely spring has sprung here in Sydney. And I note that it is the equal lux in the Southern Hemisphere here, 12 hours of daylight, 12 hours of night. That comes always before the equinox because of the atmosphere, the sun rises and sets a little later. But anyway, that all aside, I used to be involved with a group called Wison. Wison is a division of volunteer services Australia, something like that. And it is part of the whole disaster communications. Everything is coordinated through one body. And that body then has different pieces to it and they all operate out of that. So, Wison used to be affiliated with the WIA, but it joined the volunteer rescue Australia after they sort of centralized everything. So, I used to be a part of that group. It's hard to, they do a lot of physical exercise. And I'm just no longer able to do that. They have a hunt for people in the bush and all sorts of things like that that they spend to do. I'm physically not able to handle that anymore. So, I leave that to younger folks. I used to do that. And I know that they were looking for volunteers. There's some kind of boat race on the Hawkesbury River here. That organization is looking for volunteers. Unfortunately, that weekend I'm busy, but they were looking for volunteers to do that. There aren't a whole lot of opportunities here in Australia to do volunteer. Most of the communications have long been taken over by mobile phones or UHS-CD. And so, the ham radio folks have sort of been squeezed out of the, generally out of the, out of the, out of the emergency services here. So, it's sort of a small organization and not able to provide the services. So, they've looked elsewhere. RVK2DY, back to that.