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Yeah, 10-4, good buddy. Okay, so now this is a hypothetical deal, okay? Basically, getting a usable echo off planet Pluto on VHF or UHF is basically a non-starter. Radar return power falls like 1R, a square over 4, I think I just said. Pluto's radar cross section is tiny and the free space path loss is brutal. Practical planetary radar uses big dishes and high-powered microwave bands, HICACs bands. And even then, Pluto is beyond current Earth's base radar reach. So at the time as above, a ham radio style ping wouldn't come back with a detectable signal. However, radio waves travel E equals to 199,792 kilometers per second. Earth's Pluto distance range is 28 to 58 U depending on how we're positioned with Pluto at the time. So 1 AU is 8.3 light minutes. So basically times 8.3 into 28 is 28.8 hours. So at 28 AU, it would be 7.8 hours. At 48 AU, it would be 11 hours. At 50 AU, worst case, it would be 13.9 hours. However, are you following this so far? I got one more thing, but I want to make sure you follow that back to you, KB0MAI. Oh yeah, because some of the... I've read about it, right? So that's fine, yeah. I'd hate to have to send an SOS.