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Okay, seven RMU and seven JBJ, no comment. Let's see, it's a wonderful day for amateur radio. I've had a blast today. Found myself in the middle of a round table with a bunch of stations in England and I was the odd man out. Well, I'm usually the odd man out, but this case in particular, I was the only one without a British accent and I have to admit that I couldn't understand half of them. I'm very good with dialects in England and for the most part, but this was, a couple of the guys are very, very Northern, Western. Almost sounded Scottish, but it wasn't and they used something actually that I was unfamiliar with. And I do watch Acorn TV and I do watch Brick Box often. So that wasn't it, these guys were, it was very strong. But that's the wonder of amateur radio. I started watching Madeline's YouTube video and I'm gonna finish it up after your net, but she was kind of alluding to that, to our community on amateur radio and I'm kind of proud of the young lady. Good job, good job, and Emily, very good, very good. I did a thing today. I bought another piece of amateur radio equipment, but this was very important. I didn't have to get as extravagant as I did. I bought a Buckmaster dipole antenna. I started to put one together. I brought out all the bits and as my friends would have said, for my kid. And I just started thinking of having the measure, I was just lazy, let's put it down to that. I have the stuff for it, but Buckmaster tried and true. I won't have to worry about it. It'll last me probably my lifetime. So I decided to go that way. But other than that, loving life and I have to look up a hagfish. So back over to you, Jeff. GI7, RMU and 7, JVJ. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven, November, Quebec, November. All right, Henry. Well, I was kind of wondering whether or not the friends you were talking to on the round table there over in the UK might know what hagfish is. I don't know, it just sounds like something you'd find, maybe on the Atlantic Ocean, I don't know. But anyway, hey, great to hear you. Hey, but real quick, so I do wanna mention too and I saw this on Facebook, the Facebook discussion group page we have here on PSRG. Madeline posted the following. My friend Emily interviewed me for her new podcast, which is called Take Part about the topic of ham radio. She's interviewing people about their hobbies and communities so others can find community and hobbies themselves. I love this service we do and our community so much. Hopefully that comes through. Proud of us and what we do, what we all do to make ham radio amazing. So that is posted now and I saw that this morning. I can't wait to get to it. So yeah, let us know what you think. When it's all said and done, Henry, you have a great afternoon. Yeah, all right, there we go. And no comment, that's no comment, Henry. It was a great comment there. All right, you have a great afternoon. Let's go to James in Montlake. But first, it's 1.04 p.m. I'm Jack, KI7R, I'm here for the WW7 PSR. In noon, we do three of these nets every day of the year. 9 a.m. and noon and 9 p.m. Seattle time. Let's go down to Montlake, KK7, FYT. Hi, James. Hey, Jack, greetings to you and greetings to everyone on the net. Nice listening to everyone. Yeah, just children from home here, listening to the net, having a good time. Yeah, kind of cool. Yeah, I didn't realize so many people on the net and PSRG were pilots or flew aircraft. But yeah, listening to, you know, someone talk about the radials of the VOR, the variable on the range device. It's pretty cool. I hadn't heard that in a while. But yeah, yeah, I used to fly a long time ago quite a bit. But yeah, it's crazy. There are a lot of airports that are closing out there. You know, a lot of these small airports in small rural areas are just like ghost towns and they have almost no activity because general aviation is kind of slowly dying and has been for many, many years. Just like you asked, I just looked at what the price is for a new Cessna 172, which is one of the most basic airplanes out there and the one that people almost exclusively use to learn to fly on. And a new one is between $400,000 and $450,000, which is just insane for this thing that doesn't weigh that much and is actually very simple and hasn't appreciably changed really that much for, you know, since 1950-ish. Like the basic design really hadn't changed since then. You know, the electronics are slightly more modern, but that's about it. But yeah, it's I think mainly getting killed off just due to high cost. You know, these things are, the aircraft are super expensive. You're paying about $7 a gallon for aviation fuel and that combined with all the other regulatory requirements and whatnot makes people choose other hobbies definitely. Let's see, I'm headed to New Jersey for my nephew's wedding this weekend. That ought to be fun. Get to see all of the other siblings and families. And then back on Sunday night to go to work on Monday morning. Yeah, great to listen to the net. Yeah, KKC7-FYE, James and Molly. Thanks again.