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Hey Jack, good morning. This is Jeff, W6OHM in Queen Anne. And I just wanted to say hello to everybody. I hope to be ahead to kind of an interesting weekend. I've got a friend who is designing, actually he sells a product which decodes marine transmissions. I guess most marine vessels have a transponder on them these days that transmits, I think it's around 162 MHz using a protocol called AIS. And he's got a box that he's been selling for a few years now that receives that transmission and decodes it so that you can see where boats are around you. It's sort of like APRS for boats, to my understanding. And he was having some kind of technical RF issues on a new product that he's designing. And I've got a spectrum analyzer and a bunch of stuff here. And so he came over and we did some troubleshooting. And it seems like it worked out. He was able to identify an issue he was having. And I got to use some of the equipment that I've got here that otherwise would be sort of collecting dust. So anyway, we had a good time. And we ended up going to the masonry to get some pizza too. And I love the masonry down in lower Queen Anne. So we had a good lunch as well. But anyway, not too much going on Monday here. Just trying to get caught up and ready for the week. But I wanted to drop in and say hello and good morning. And thanks for hosting the net. Back to you, Jack. This is Jeff in Queen Anne, W60HM.