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Yeah, six hours is a long time. I know I hit the, you know, I have a lot of things I feel but probably about three years ago and it's a local club here in Blue Springs and I thought they were going to be at the hospital and the hospital was always a great place. They'd set up a tent outside and they'd have generators and solar panels and several radios and what was nice is you could go inside the building and it's still cooled off and get some air conditioning on you and they had nice bathrooms and stuff like that. And for some reason the club broke up and they decided, this last time I went it was out in the country out near Concordia which was about 50 miles away. You know, that's not a local club anymore for me, right? And it was a guy's house, a farm, and he had all kinds of construction equipment out there, old stuff that doesn't even work anymore. And it was kind of cool because we used, you know, a crane, an old 1950s crane, he had it out there and the mass stuck up about 40 or 50 feet up in the air and it was right next to his barn and we used that crane as the tower to put up our dipole antennas and stuff like that. But it was, you know, a small group of guys and it was okay but it was hot as hell and there was no restroom and there was no relief in the heat. Down here at that time it was like about 100 degrees outside even in the evening so it was not that great and I decided not to go back. So, as a matter of fact, field days in general around the Kansas City area you could find like 30 of them. Every club would have one and now there's maybe four altogether. So it's really changed over the years.