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that I look forward to give some script for the check. Up next, Mike is checking with us and the U.S. database is offline because of the government shutdown usually QRZ helps me out. But KK7OUH, just give me your name and please come ahead with the report. Yes, this is Corey, KK7OUH. I'm just trying out my video and seeing how well it works. It looks all right so far. Hey, good stuff. Well, let me give you a tip here. If you head over to psrg.org, psrg is for Puget Sound Repeater Group. Over in the top right-hand corner, there is a link that says the Voterscope. The cool thing about this repeater is we have multiple receiving stations that listen on 146.36. Then there is just one station that transmits everything back out on 146.96. And so the cool thing is it shows a graph and it shows you which station you are hitting or all of them or some of them and at what level and it goes up to 255 RSSI. So it can give you an idea of how well you are hitting the repeater. It's also just interesting factoid that sometimes the way that you hear the repeater is not how we hear you. Sometimes stations will be like, ah, I'm picking you up really scratchy. I hope I'm coming in okay. I'm like gangbusters because they're actually hitting a different receiving station. And then they're all tied together with what's called Ham-WAN and it chooses the best signal and that's where it transmits back out from Seattle. So I'd recommend going over there when you transmit. I was looking at the voter scope and I think you were hitting the Cougar Mountain receiving station, but actually pretty low RSSI. So quite a bit of white noise signal, but you're holding the repeater just fine. So tell us what kind of antenna and radio you're using and anything else and then just close out with your call sign up. Back to you, Corey. This is repeater station. Oh yeah, I'm on a radio using a signal on camera inside a house in Tacoma. So yeah, if I'm hitting any repeater, I think I'm doing alright.