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Okay, it seems like, oh you're back, Mark is back. Mark, I see you disconnected there and probably had a phone call on your phone. KC8FQV, do you have anything further before I move along my friends? This is repeater station kilo kilo seven November Quebec November all star node six two two. Well I sent it back over to you and I think you might have picked up and then it dropped. I don't know. Well that we were talking about these handoffs and I think the handoffs even get lengthier as we go across the ocean. And sometimes we, you know, they talk about, I think there was a question one day we had on a trivia. I don't know if it was between the United States and the other countries or between one of the other foreign countries to the other foreign country of not connected. They say like 99% of the internet goes to the cable. If it don't go through the fiber cable then it has to go up via satellite. Well then that's a 46,000 mile travel. Well yeah there could be some latency there. They ask you to travel 23,000 miles up the orbit and 23,000 miles back down. And of course when you go around the world, now I have to try to figure out which, well we would use an east coast or east or west coast earth station and that would get us over the pond. So it depends on which way they're, which way and who they want to get it to. Do we use an east coast pond? Do we launch it, the satellite from the east coast and launch it up, the signal up from the east coast or do we launch it up from the west coast station to get it over? You know because the satellites, we can't get it around the world. You have to, you have to be able to both see the same bird out there. I don't know, I'm wondering if there is anything where they send it up to one bird and they send it bird to bird and back down. I wonder if they are doing any of that yet. I think they might be trying to. You know because you have the curvature of the earth but once you get out of space the curvature is gone, the curvature is there but you have line of sight again. And microwave is a line of sight. So okay, self QVI, I'll send it back your way Graham.