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And it has three of the biggest, many of the mid to bigger size SUVs. Presently, it is only being made in Shanghai, in China, but it will eventually be added to the US market as well. And they've refreshed, you know, if you know what a Tesla looks like when you go down a freeway or down a highway, there are two new versions of the Model Y and the Model 3. They're completely different in the front and in the back especially. I think before the tax thing went away, they were selling those things like hotcakes. So when I go out for a drive, I see more of these slightly new models than the older ones. So that's kind of a good indication. But there are many, many choices as Jim and others will contest too that are very, very good cars as well if you're into buying electric cars. And Kia has some, Kia and Hyundai, they're kind of pals, they have a pretty large SUV model. And we don't have time nor the inclination to parcel out how that compares with the Model Y slash X as far as performance, cubic features of storage and so on and so forth. Maybe in person we can chat. And Kevin is still going without gas. Sweet. Thank you so much for that Steve. Thanks for coming back with that. And yeah, well have a great day Steve. And yeah, say hello to your wonderful wife and your little dog. And I think that yeah, and your daughter. I think your daughter lives with you maybe. But anyway, 7th of December Steve, it's good to hear from you and thank you for that information. All right, next on the list is Arthur. I did not write down your call sign, but you know who you are. Arthur, please come ahead with your report. Hello, good morning Rebecca and Lynette. Yes, KU7 in UI. I need to think of a backronym I guess. I don't know, never unicorn something. Anyway, yeah, what is radio? That is always an interesting question. And myself having kind of recently set back up radio stuff and you know, been on the net recently this time, you know, several years later. Now I have little kids who are like 6 and 8 and of the age where they can start learning about stuff and they're just sponges of curiosity, which I love. Being a geek, it's just so much fun being asked questions of how things work and getting to explain and kind of figure out how deep of a level can you explain things on and still hold their attention, which of course with a kid's attention span is always a challenge. I mean, you know, for me, holding my attention can be as well I guess, but that kind of goes along with the whole curiosity gene I suppose. But yeah, I was talking about radio going through the air. Fortunately, they're pretty familiar with radio in the car and they'll kind of explain how that worked several years ago. So the fact that there can be other kinds of radio I guess is maybe somewhat intuitive. I guess being digital natives maybe that helps. But I now have stepped up my RF game a bit because I have two antennas, you know, having one antenna and unfortunately I just have two VHF rigs right now, one on my desk and one mobile. But having two antennas means I can play with the SDR while I do things like this on the desktop station. And so we were looking at the SDR last night, looking at all kinds of stuff. I found CTAC's frequencies I think around like 119 MHz, maybe 129. And so we were listening to conversations of aircraft as they were approaching CTAC, which is kind of cool. And then looking at other bands as well. I'm really curious what is on 250 MHz. The frequency spectrum diagram didn't really show anything interesting there, just, you know, mobile, mobile satellite. Maybe the Zoom call on the 8th I'll learn some more about that satellite stuff. I'm really curious to learn more about all the digital modes and stuff too. Because, you know, on the SDR, at least as far as I know how to use it, I can just listen to FM and AM stuff, everything else is kind of a mystery to me. But, you know, I'm sure I'll pick up a lot from you guys and learn more about all the different modes. Digital is kind of a big mystery, but I do work in tech, so I'm sure I can learn some of that stuff and have lots of fun with that. Also with the SDR, I think I need to build an HF antenna of some type. So maybe that will be a future project, which I'll look forward to. So anyway, that's my report. Just lots of fun in radio land. A whole ton of fun explaining it to the kiddos. And yeah, really looking forward to learning more with them as well. Alright, 70P to the net. KE7 NUI Arthur Renton, East Renton Highlands.