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All right Chris, everybody on that? I'm on day six of COVID and literally just got up five minutes ago so my voice isn't quite booted up fully yet. Who knew COVID would come back like that? It has around our house anyway. So we are getting lots of ham radio done which is good. Enjoying 10 meters which has been open worldwide every day for the last few days which has been fantastic. No particular announcements. System is working well. Don't forget to check out the CanadaHub.ca website for the dashboard and other information. I've learned about a new system called Ham's Overvoip. I think it's called. I'm probably murdering that. A replacement as such for a Ham Shack hotline. I'm curious to know if lots of people are using that or not. Maybe if people could let you know when they check in. I don't have Sportford on the CanadaHub but I'd consider it if there was demand. Something to think about. Okay sorry Brian coming together here. Balloons. We're continuing to make slow progress but progress nonetheless on getting pictures transmitted from the balloon. As soon as I'm well enough I'm hoping to take our system, our test system. We plan to fly in October to a high altitude balloon and drive around the various mountaintop locations and try to make sure we can send pictures 30 kilometers away over various bands. See how that all performs. So that's kind of fun. That's coming up. I think we have a good chance of doing a launch in October based on how things are coming together but you know we don't know if we've got any gotchas yet in the testing but it's coming along. Gosh I do know there was something else I meant to mention. My camera what it is so brains not working. I don't think I'll be around when you take the West Coast chickens later on so I'm going to cheat. I'm sneaky to give you my answer now. I don't regret selling anything. In fact I listed microphones and antenna switches and remote controllers and all sorts of stuff yesterday because I went through my shack and I thought I'm not using this stuff. And I think if you're not using stuff, sell it because then somebody that can enjoy it can benefit from it and you get a little bit of money back as well so why not. It's always nice to see somebody get a radio back in service for example. Back to that B7NZ.