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Well, they've got accommodations for visually impaired people in Canada for taking the test. They'll verbally give you the test. You won't have to read it. They'll also write down your answers. I did have that accommodation when I got my test. All you've got to do is contact Science, Trade and Technology to let them know what you're trying to do. And they will appoint an official from that organization that's in that area to administer your test. When it comes to a repeater in Canada, your friend will need to have an advanced license. Now, I don't have an advanced license, but I do have a repeater because there's a stipulation in there that says you can have someone else with an advanced license sponsor the repeater. So the call sign, V01-XMT, that's on the repeater here, that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to someone else. So should they down the road decide, hey, I want that call sign for a different repeater, I'd have to find someone else to put a different call sign on that repeater. Now, I know enough people with advanced qualifications that would sponsor a call sign. I mean, it's obvious. I know how to administer a repeater. And that's the thing, right? They don't want people with just basic licenses administering repeaters and having them noisy and stuff like that. But I mean, I know how to administer a repeater. I've had Simplex nodes for years. But that's how the repeater thing works. You do need someone with an advanced license to sponsor it. That advanced test, man, it's freaking hard. That's like the extra test in the States, right? And I've taken it multiple times over the years, and I've bombed it multiple times over the years. I don't mind saying it's a hard test. So hopefully that all works out for you. And a Simplex node is good, and you can have that with a basic license. But you can't have a full duplex repeater, unfortunately, without a sponsor. And I hope that the boys don't ever want that call sign, you know, and they just register a new one for another repeater, because I really like having that repeater on the air here. But should they ever decide to pull that call sign, man, I'd have to shut it down. It's just the law. I would have to turn off the switch. But I find someone else in advanced pretty quick to get another call sign put on it. So, you know, the city here, we don't want repeaters getting shut down. We want as many as possible that are on the air and functioning. And this one is probably in the best condition of most repeaters around town, to be honest with you. It's not noisy. It's in an excellent location, you know, really high up. It covers the whole city with a portable. I mean, you can't say that about many of the other repeaters around here. There's not many other repeaters around here. There's only like five in the whole city. Probably five or six, I'm not the one that got here, but... A lot of them are noisy. A lot of them are old. You know, they've got interference around them. They get like noise bursts, you know, different things. But we'll see. All right. We're at the bottom of the list again, ladies and gentlemen. So it's time to make another call for check-ins. Anybody anywhere that would like to get on the cowabunga net here this morning, please go ahead with your call sign now.