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Thank you for bringing me in. I'm coming via Echo Link, so I hope there's no problem with the audio there. Yeah, I've been busy. I got my Canadian citizenship on the 10th, so I've been celebrating a lot of firsts as a Canadian. I've been identifying as a Canadian the whole time, by the way, for 25 years. What does the future hold for Ham Radio? Well, I came in in Ham Radio only in January 2023, and the stuff that I was introduced to, it was all new to me, FT8, FT4, Fusion, DMR, HF. Actually, I went to HF last because it was too expensive to get started out with that for a new video. You can always get hand-me-downs and stuff like that. But what do I think the future's going to hold? I hope it holds a lot of making things simpler. I don't know how to say that other than not simpler, more affordable. That's what I want to say, more affordable. I can't wait till most people, like the folks that mentor me, that's been getting their 60-year in Ham Radio, 50-year in Ham Radio, they've made stuff out of kids, things like that. I come along, and that's a novelty. You can go to Amazon, they'll sell a kit for something. It's like, oh, look at that, right? I'm hoping that the technology keeps growing, keeps getting better, so that anyone can just go pick up a kit or something and throw a radio together that'll fit inside the palm of your hand, and you'll be able to work everything on it. It's all just totally electronic, right? And then as something goes out, you just pull a piece out, like the old video cards, you snap another piece in, you keep on going your way, right? We used to call that in the business, fill replaceable units. So not do anything you have to get a starter on, they're just little parts and pieces, you just pick one up and stick another one in. So that's what I hope. I hope people pick up the digital stuff, because when the bands are bad, it's not a bad time for me, I just switch over to digital. Anyway, I've talked enough, back over to you guys, Victor Alpha 3, Echo