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I was in the DMR for a couple of years. I got away from DMR. It just seemed like everybody was too spread out. You know, there's so many top groups and there's hundreds if not thousands of them. And I'm assuming Fusion is the same way. D-Star, you know, there's umpteen number of reflectors and and hams just get really spread out on digital. When it comes to analog, you know, you get your group together, you know, it doesn't take much to participate. You don't have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on equipment to get on this net. You know, you can use your phone and have no other radios in your possession. As long as you've got a phone, you can get on here, you know, and I really like that. So it doesn't exclude based on financial ability. Because I know D-Star radios and Fusion radios and stuff, they cost big bucks. You're paying five, six hundred bucks for a handheld in D-Star and Fusion. DMR, luckily you can get radios that are very cost effective and get on DMR with a hotspot or a repeater. My repeater here has DMR capability. It's only for me to log into it and put in a serial number and blah blah blah. I could activate DMR on here. But no, there's no sense. All-Star is fantastic. I really like it. It's clear, functional. I don't barely ever move the repeater off Do-Drop-In. It's part of the Do-Drop-In network. And as you heard earlier, you know, another station from here in the area checked in and it's good. I hear Don on several nets actually, which is good. And there's a few more V01s to check in in the afternoon, sometimes in the evenings, to various other nets. So the repeater does get used. Not a whole big bunch, but at least a little bit by other hams here locally. And I use it constantly. I'm usually always having an HT on somewhere in the background. You know, it's a lot of fun. But, you know, it's what you make of it. Any hobby is what you make of it. You know, if you put in the time and you learn it and you learn new things and stuff like that, you know, it is what it is. I'm going to reset and I want to talk about the Christmas net because Josh mentioned, you know, you're looking for how it worked and all that. Well, I'll tell you how. And this year we're going to do it very similar to what we did last year. And I'm hoping Bill is going to be available. Perhaps you can tell us, Bill, because I think it was mainly you last year that was forwarding kids names and call signs to me. It is a multi-station effort here on Christmas Eve. Did I reset? Let me just do it again just in case.