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Yeah, hey Dave. GW8SZL from N9KGC. I missed that call sign from the previous station. I was going to look him up on QRZ because I'm from New Jersey. I lived the first half of my life in New Jersey, but I missed his call sign, but that's okay. Let me see. I tried starting to write it down. Anyway, I won't keep you too long here. I wanted to just get checked in. I turned it on when Graham was just finishing up his segment. I'll say hello to Graham if you're still listening out there. Just very briefly, I won't give you all the details, but I had that meeting yesterday with the engineer from the company that does those FM and AM broadcast station setups about using a modified version of my mount. So we came up with a whole different idea for the mount, but the meeting was incredibly interesting. And I'll have to tell you about it sometime off the net. Stuff about these transmitter antennas for commercial radio, broadcast radio, that seemed completely counterintuitive to me. Stuff I never would have dreamed of. Really, really weird. I'll leave you with this one comment. I can't give you all the details, but I just assumed broadcast radio stations used omni-directional antennas. You would think, right? Turns out that's like an exception. Every setup that this company manages, almost every one, is a directional antenna setup. And I just was blown away by that for commercial broadcast radio. And then he explained why, and it all made sense afterwards. But anyway, like I said, off the net. One of these days I'll get with you on all that. Let me give it back to you, Dave, back to net control from N9KGC.