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Good morning Dave, thanks for running that. Good morning to everybody online on the network. Scott is out fishing so I don't know if he'll check in today. He's out whale watching and fishing apparently off Vancouver Island. Let's see, I have just a couple of things where you continue to work on the next balloon project. I sent an email out recently to our email list that let everybody know that the V7NFR balloon is now officially pronounced dead or missing in action after the signal got weaker and weaker over the mid-Atlantic but it did make two and a half circumnavigations around so that was pretty cool. We're working on the next high altitude balloon launch. We did a little bit of a step backwards this week. We're trying to frequency plan this thing because we've got two GPS receivers, we've got image transmissions, we're going to send a photo every 30 seconds live during the flight and we'll post those up online. You'll be able to follow that. We've also got the crossband repeater and we've got APRS. All this stuff has to be planned a little bit so we don't have any mutual interference and such. We're doing a little bit more on that this week and hoping to do some testing next week. Long story short, we hope to have a high altitude balloon launch with all the new toys going in October so stay tuned. In other news, October 14th at 7pm Manitoba time I'll be giving a presentation to the radio amateurs of Manitoba and there's anybody joining in who wants to join in and listen to that. Now that presentation will be on the storied history of pottery. No, it will be on All-Star and RLP and Echolink and how all that works. We'll talk a little bit about the differences between those systems and we'll talk about how the Canada Hub came about and how it works and give some examples both as how All-Star can be used as a network tool or as something to use like we're doing but also as a way of controlling your network or controlling repeaters so pretty cool. That's October 14th, 7pm. Shoot me an email if you're interested in any of that. I'll get the link to you when I have it. My email is v7nz at myrac.ca or aaarl.net and I'm probably coming close to timing out so back to you Dave. V7nz.