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Well good morning Joe and good morning fellow amateurs this morning. Yeah we had a pretty good time. Actually it was lunch but we got there about 12 o'clock for lunch yesterday with a group of the Hams here in the Portland area and it was good to meet put a face with the with the voice actually for Cliff and I hope he has a great time as daughter's wedding I think he's going to. Let's see I do remember my call my call sign and my handle as a CB operator back in 73 and way back then and actually I think I had a CB radio way back before that and the call sign was KAFI 4405 and the reason I remember that I used to joke with that King Arthur's fuzzy iguana 4405 so we made up our own acronym and call call signs back then so yeah it was KAFI 4405 and the handle was nightcrawler and yeah as soon as I was working at night and stuff like that so he's got to keep in touch with my wife and at the time and yeah it was a good it was an interesting time and communications and then about 1980 I took my novice test and passed out about eight words a minute so it's a it's a lot of fun and we we have a lot of fun with it and now I understand they're coming out with not only am but FM and sideband on well they got dad's sideband before but FM on CB in the 27 megahertz range so that that'll be interesting if anybody's still on it I don't know if they are not anyway hope you're doing well Joe we'll talk to you guys later AB7DW