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Pretty cool. Most of the digital modes have got some variant of it. Yeezy's system fusion that transmits your call sign. So you know who you're talking to. D-Star will transmit your call sign plus your name and location. But D-Star radios, even handhelds get DDS built into them. So the cool thing about those is if you're out and about with a D-Star handheld and you can hit a D-Star repeater with it, it pulls your actual GPS coordinates right from your radio and sends it with your transmission through the repeater and out over the network. So let's say someone's talking to someone down in the States, it's going to tell them that I'm in this direction from them and I'm like 670,000 miles away or whatever. It'll say my distance from them along with my call sign, my name, and my written message or written location will come up on the screen of your D-Star radio. So they all do it a little bit differently. All that D-Star stuff is pushed through the network from your radio. The DMR stuff is mainly done because of the network connected to your DMR ID. They give you a seven-digit number that corresponds with your call sign. So then when that seven-digit number comes in, the call sign gets triggered if you've got a database in your radio. Instead of it going over the network, all that goes over the network is your DMR ID. And depending on what you've got programmed into your radio for those IDs, which in my case this radio I've got most of the database in here, it would show their call sign, name, their location, and all that kind of stuff. So it's pretty cool man. I was into D-Star for several years and I got into DMR for maybe a couple of years, but then I came back to analog man. It's just so much simpler. And with All-Star it's gotten so much clearer than what Echo Link used to be back in the day.