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KK7Z VA6GRZ. Hey Joe. Hey everybody on the net. I'm just trying to finish. Oh, got to turn that radio down. Oh, there's Bart on there. VA6DB. Handful of QSL cards. That's what I'm trying to say here. Right, because I dug the...oh, typos. There we go. Okay, so, weather first. We've got 5 degrees right now, high of 12. Ooh, it's a little bit cooler. Yeah, it's autumn here. 42 and 53. Mix of sun and cloud. Maybe showers, but that might be later on. So, from everybody's guessing from my call sign, that was my second handle, Grizzly. But I'll get to that in a bit. But the first one, I was a cadet in St. John Ambulance Brigade in Victoria when we were living out in Langford. And we had a CD, a ham radio club at Belmont Secondary. So, I was actually president for a couple of terms in my great tenure. And so my first one was the Band-Aid Man. Don't ask me why. I was young and foolish, I guess. Or made a poor choice. But, there we go. And I couldn't tell you what our XM13 number was. Yeah, I don't know if I'd be able to find anything. Maybe Belmont Secondary, but that would have been... I don't have any yearbooks from that back then. Anyway, when I moved to Ed, when I got back into the hobby back in 1995 with my ex-wife, when we were still together, I went and bought my first radio, wearing the Vancouver Grizzlies T-shirt. So, that was the story behind that one. And nobody in the home on the facility had that handle. So, I used that frequently for the next five or six years. And then I gave up the CD radio and then I switched, then I got my ham license and it became one thanks to a friend of mine who was also a ham and a CB'er. And, uh, convinced me to go get my license. And he didn't need code anymore. So, I got to stand by and reset. So, the VA6GRZ returning. So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. And yeah, uh, well, I got too many QSL cards. And the guy that I talked to most frequently was, uh, where is he here? Um... What was his name? Oh, the Highwayman, Jay, out in, um, Elliott Lake, Ontario. And I even talked a lot to, uh, Kay in the Kenai up in, uh, Alaska. Uh, quite a bit as well. But, whole bunch of others. So, there we go. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, if I find my card in here... Oh, phone call. Suddenly, say, everybody. Back to you, Joe.