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I'm not sure I followed you there. No, I bought my, my rig cost me 1600 Canadian. I think the Aussie dollar's a little better than ours, so it's probably in the 1200 dollar range for you guys, something like that. But yeah, no, it's a very informal area here. Everybody's a friend and everybody's welcome. This is repeater station kilo kilo seven. Sorry if I confused you Ben. I was, radio wise, I started off back in 1976. So I've been on there for a long time. I still have the TS 520S Kenwood and with all those extra bits and pieces that come with it that you can get, that was working really well. It even works today. However, I ended up buying the AIC991A because I wanted to experiment a bit more with this C4 FM and so on, see how that works out. But there you are, I'm not sure what it cost. As you said, if our dollar's slightly better than yours, so I think it was about $2,000 in our money, in Australian money. So what's that probably 22 in your money over there? Still not so bad. It's a reasonably good set. We did pick up you guys on FQ8 from about 7 GMT onwards till about 8.30 and then it seems to drop out after that on 20 metres. Anyway, that's the story you sent. I wonder what you've been doing for your living over there. I noticed you're talking about having jobs for the people applying for many jobs with your boss and so on. Over. I'm a brand new ham. I got my license this spring. So I'm still learning a lot. That's why I broke down and bought an FDX10 right away because it covers all the bands, all the modes. So I've got a chance to learn everything. For work, I work for a home medical equipment company. We do deliveries and installations of doctor ordered or therapist ordered home medical equipment. I do that three days a week. The other two days I deliver liquid oxygen to residents, to old age homes and hospitals. That's for anybody who needs oxygen therapy at 6 litres a minute or more at rest. We cover a great big area of northern Ontario, northeast Ontario. So I drive. Tomorrow I'm probably looking at about 600 kilometres of driving. I'll do probably 10 to 12 calls along the way. I spend a lot of time on the radio or on the road. I started taking a handheld with me. With the repeater book I programmed in. Every repeater I could find on my routes and I try and hit the repeater, see if anybody's around while I'm driving. So far it's pretty dead up here. Nobody's much on the repeaters. So it is what it is. I'm learning as much as I can about ham radio and antennas. I was a technician in the Air Force for a while and it helped me get my base. But it's a whole brand new world once you start playing in the ham world.