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Almost certainly Steve, no problem, we'll definitely do that. Oh my god, I was meaning to give him some information. I don't know if he's still, oh, just slipped my mind. I'll do it and repeat it tomorrow if he isn't listening now, but I'll put it on the air. You don't, Brian, you don't have to retest. I was talking to an examiner friend of mine, I ran into him while I was on Main Street and he's here as well. He is a VE3, okay, and he's an examiner, I believe, for the Scarborough Amateurs. His name is Dean Sug, VE3 Sug. Anyways, I asked him, if you have an American Extra, can you use it in Canada? He said most certainly. He says even if you get, even if they make your, even if your, like, it's optional whether you get a Canadian call or not. That's up to you. I mean, it depends. If people are breaking your chops about it and you relent, even if you do that, you don't have to retest. You have a reciprocal agreement with the U.S. so you can absolutely use your Extra call in Canada. You don't need to retest. I asked him that, him being an examiner. I said, if an American comes to Canada and decides to operate here whether permanently or full-time, does he have to retest? Can he still use it? He said certainly he can still use his call. He also even observed, like I thought, well I don't know if examiners would observe it the same way. They're not stupid, so they would know that he had said that even, well, like, go on BOIP. It's less observed there. So, he had mentioned that as well. No one's going to care exactly where you happen to be, where your fingerprint happens to be at at the time. So, yes. You don't need to retest. You can use your Extra call here. You just have to, well, it's a little, it might be a little dicey in that you have to observe the Canadian ban rules. So, if you have your American call, he wasn't sure if you can work the Canadian ban, right? Because the Canadian ban, the lower portion, right? There's only a few bans that have it. But the Canadian bans on 75 and 80 and 40 and 20, like, you know, the zeros, like, you know, the cold portions, like 14, 0, 7.0, 3.6, because they're allowed to go super low. And he kind of thought that if you sport your AB1, sorry, yeah, your AB1 call on those part of the bans, like, On Tars, Ontario, Open Line, and a few of those places, BC, Open Line. He kind of suspected that they might say, you're out of band, old man. And so, he thought maybe avoid those, just so you don't have to always deal with that. Or, just tell them to go blaze and that you're in the right. So, really depends on how you want to explain yourself. He said he wouldn't want to always deal with it. So, either he really tried, like he said, him personally, he would really, either he would try to really research it or the short answer is, to just stay off of it then. He said, what does your friend do, right? And I said, right, because I was talking about you, and I said, well, he does a lot of Echolink, and you know, he rides around on his bike and uses RF, and he uses All Stars and Echolink, and back and forth. He said, ah, he's got no problem. As long as you're talking about Canada and US, he said he thinks he could give you a definite answer. It's just more if you would have asked about UK, or if you would have asked about Mexico, then you know, then it becomes whether the US has a reciprocal agreement with them or not. The answer is probably not, but I don't know. So, you're definitely home free, no matter where you want to make your home. Spout wings and just have fun. Alright.