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Oh my God, no. We're not close to New Zealand at all. They're right down on the bottom, close to Antarctica. We're right up on the top, close to Canada. We're in Newfoundland, or as I call it, The Rock. There's lots of us call it The Rock. But yeah, Woody was in there as well, N5XCX. He was the one that said, hello, have a nice day, but you didn't hear a call sign from him. His call sign part doubled, but he definitely was in there. So definitely want to relay Woody, and good morning, Woody. Great to hear you out here, man. And great to hear everybody out here. It's definitely nice to hear such a great group of people first thing in the morning. We just finished with the Callabunga net. And I'm using one of these little Bofang Triple 8s, so you can believe that. I heard my sound for the first time on it this morning through the Echo Link app. I'm coming through on RF through our repeater here. And man, for a little tiny thing, you know, I think these things are like two for 20 bucks, or two for like less than 20 bucks down in the States. I think we can get them two for 20 here in Canada. So it's nice to be able to get them even cheaper. And just great little radios. You don't have any screen or any buttons on the front. No DTMF pad, none of that. Just 16 channels of programmable UHF radio in a tiny little form factor. Great little throwaways. I mean, if you lost one of these, you were in the woods, you lost it. No big deal, right? If you lost a $200 or $300 Yezu or Icom HT, that's more of a big deal. But these little things, man oh man, they're probably not waterproof. I wouldn't recommend dropping them a whole lot. But as far as just a transmitting radio, these are great. I gotta say, I really like them. I've had a pair of them here for quite some time. And my regular HT that I really like for nets, the MD380, the batteries have started to conk out in those. So I've got a couple of new upgraded batteries for those that allow for Type-C charging, which is something the previous model did not allow. It was when the MD380 came out and there was no USB-C charging back then. So they've added it via a port on the battery itself. So no more need for the drop-in chargers for the MD380. Just plug it in with your regular old cell phone charger and you're good to go. So with that, if you use any HTs that don't currently have good batteries, check Amazon because chances are someone probably makes an upgraded battery for your favorite HT that will add USB-C charging. So I recommend anybody check that out because that's a huge convenience, especially, let me reset. Cool.