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No, you can get a number, a node number. You go to Allstarlink.org and you set it up, you put in your callsign, your register, and then you set up a node, a number, and then you set up a server. And then through the SharkRF, if that supports Allstar, which I think it does, it supports the digital modes and Allstar, it's an RF hotspot, a low power RF hotspot. So essentially, if you've got an Allstar node set up, then you put it into the settings in that, and the same way you're connecting through Echo Link, then you can connect through Allstar. It's just another mode. Now you can get low power RF hotspots that only do Allstar on analog, but they're limited to Allstar on analog, right? You have to use analog radio. But yeah, you can set it up. You don't need a physical piece of hardware because the SharkRF would be the physical piece of hardware. You just put your credentials into it, and then that would allow you to use the Allstar system, which in turn does give better audio, better quality. It's wider banded, so it gives you better quality audio. Echo Link compresses a lot, and so it's just not as clean as what Allstar is, but the primary mode on the repeater here is Allstar, but it is connected to DoDropIn via our Allstar hub, and then so if you connect to Echo Link or Allstar, it doesn't really matter. You're going to end up in the same place anyway. But yeah, you're sounding good man through the system, and when you're out and about around town, if you've got a UHF radio, you can use UHF radio and get into this repeater. I mean repeaters on Shea Heights, Montana is 600 feet in the air above the city, so this repeater on RF does cover from all the way down in Torbay to something like El Coley Road if you're on a mobile, but if you're on a handheld, you can get it anywhere in town with no trouble.