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Yes, Sean double K is going to get there by, well I don't know if he'll be at the, here in time for the, uh, Ready to Shine event, although that would be something if he, yeah, it'd be earlier than he said he was going to come here, but, but I am looking forward to, um, to meeting Sean double K in person. I also used to have a C-band dish that I bought, used, or actually I don't think I even paid for the dish, it was, I never had it in service, although two of my siblings, the other two ham radio operators, Clay and Brian, have both had working C-band dishes. But I wanted to use it to, I had this idea that it was a way to start possibility of moon bounce, like using SHF moon bounce, and, uh, it was a C-band dish, so, super high frequency. Well anyway, take care, uh, Mike, and I wrote things down, I wrote C-band dish and I wrote max bit error rate. Take care, and I'll see you at the Rain or Shine. Next we have KK7MCW Brian, and I didn't write IO, so Brian, go ahead and give us a report if you're there. I am here indeed, um, I'm not sure I heard about a call sign correctly, so I'll read it back, KK7MZW, I sometimes forget to say Z instead of Z because, you know, we're supposed to do that. Um, moon bounce, well, I think my uncle used to sell C-band equipment, uh, boy, that would have been a good thing to grab ahold of. Those are like the two and a half meter parabolic dishes. I remember when, uh, you knew when somebody had money, I had the sticks where I lived because they had a satellite. Um, that was not us, by the way. Yeah, we'd get Channel 2 sometimes through, through a VHF ducting down at Olympia. Channel 2 came from Victoria, so that was pretty unusual atmospheric conditions, but that was as long distance and exotic as it was down there. Um, what I was going to say is Sean reminded me, uh, speaking of the sunset, that, uh, I sort of saw it tonight, but, um, I was in an unusual location. I was on my roof, I went out again, I think I might have diagnosed the problem with noise, uh, for the Simplex net, so hopefully next week, hopefully, I can hear Jones transmission. That would be really cool. That's kind of my indicator of when everything's set up just right because, uh, for some reason, it's, it's tough to get Capitol Hill. You'd think it'd be easy for where I'm at in Kirkland, which is almost line of sight, but I think we must have an obstruction between us. So that'll be the test Saturday. Hopefully I can hear you, Jones. All right, back to you. KK7, MZW.