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Here it is, here's the VY1 MGS returning Michael in white, oh no I'm in Faroe, Utah, usually in white horse. So minus two degrees charlie, that's about 20 degrees foxtrot. Nice and still here, I'm at a campground, this side of the lake. I've been doing some field work with a team member. They've got a room in town, I decided to camp. So we're moving sights today, we're headed west and north. So I'm striking camp right now. I'm taking down some bubble wrap. Not too bad, we're fishing in. I've been pretty tall today. I'm going to be here, good to hear everyone. I've been commuting from Faroe to the work site, which is about an hour for the week. Each way, I've been playing some mobile HF on the way. I made a few contacts, but I was not read up on the contesting rules and I'm out of town and really engaged. So unfortunately I wasn't able to partake as much as I would like, but I think that would have been a good opportunity to do a little contesting assistance there. But it sounds like bank additions are great. When do I operate? As much as I can when I have time, essentially. Thanks for giving us an opportunity for that today Ernest and everyone else. Big salute to Trans Canada Net, all the trans. Ernest, how are you doing today? Matthew from Victor Yankee One. Mike, all here. I'm doing really good actually. Fresh off for shoulder surgery, which is awesome because I was hoping that I would have my surgery. I was hoping it was in November, the end of November, but I got to end of October. Only reason I'm on that is because with the job I have downtown all over there, there's no work from home. But now I get to work from home now for the next six to eight weeks. So I was just like, yeah, come on with your shoulder surgery. Let's get that all sorted out. For me, folks, I've heard all about you guys and what you do. I forgot to tell a little bit about me, so we're almost at the bottom. So I do radio all the time. That's just how that goes. I worked hard to get that license after many failed attempts, many, many, many failed attempts. So when the radio goes off, there's usually some type of major power outage or something has blanketed the earth that I can't talk on the radio. I love doing portal operations though. My fun in the shack, I'm doing nets, but on HF, I don't use the HF rig in the house. That's an outdoor thing for me. I do have lots of property, but for me, I like to go to different places and work on HF and play with different types of antennas. The reason I was asked about the contesting, I've done field day, but I've never really done a contest. I was just trying to look for some tips and tricks to participate in this one. But I'm glad to look for someone else because 99.9% of the folks that are out here today, yeah, I'm just going to learn my, what do you call it, my grid. I'm going to go help some other people get the points in their log. That's what I'm going to do. Have some fun with that. So yeah, that's how Ernest is doing today. Thank you for being out there. We're at the bottom of the list too, folks. So we're going to...