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Yeah, the receiver, the R1155 had low frequency, I think, just below the AM band and then I think somewhere around 80 meters and 40 meters. I think there was a fourth band there but I can't remember exactly where it was. It might have been lower than the AM band even. It was back in the days when they thought the low stuff was better than the high stuff. And it wasn't, well I guess during the war they started to realize, oh, there's some functionality to be had in the higher frequencies. But yeah, the R1155 was very popular. I can't remember. Way more of those were built than the translators and they were very popular after the war. HAMS were buying them up and modifying them. They were putting in a speaker, taking out the direction finding circuitry and putting in an audio amplifier and a speaker. They actually drilled holes in the one side of the case and onto the speaker. And so a lot of them got modified after the war for amateur radio use. And then the T1154 was the transmitter. Big, heavy, bulky thing. And the tubes are very hard to find. I don't think anybody but the Brits made the tubes for those and they're hard to find now. So you don't see too many of those on the air. So it'll be neat once we can get that up and connected and on the air. And I know there'll be some activity on 40 meters at some point in time. And I think it's putting out 30 to 40 watts. So it's possible. We may have to up the power a little bit. The power supply they had in the planes ran at about 1200 volts. And what we have there now only puts out about 950. So we don't get all the power that they would have back then. But yeah, a little easier to build the 900 volt power supply than the 1200 volt power supply. Back to you, Dave, from V6 PLC.