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But tomorrow I may use my standard costume that I was in the rain or shine of the archaeologists from the future. Nobody knows. Nobody will guess I'm an archaeologist. But tomorrow evening I get to go to the opera. I have a complimentary ticket because I'm in the Veterans Choir which is sponsored by the opera. And I am going to for the very first time see live the Pirates of Penzance by Gilbrich and Sullivan. And you know I got such a kick of it in my earlier years I even had a multi LP set of an audio recording of the Pirates of Penzance. And I talked, I'm working on this for ten seconds before I have to shut up and say this is Kilo X-ray 2 Charlie Whiskey 33. All the numbers back to that. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7 November Quebec November. Leo and Leah and Valentine went to see that opera at family day last Sunday and loved it. Loved it so much. I don't know if you know this but minions have covered some of the songs from Pirates of Penzance so Leo thought that was the coolest. But anyway they loved it. We loved it. You're going to it's going to be great. I'm jealous. That's so fun. That's so fun. It's such a fun opera too. Have fun Joan. And yeah ten years fourteen years. What's the difference? We're all going to die in the end aren't we? 33 and 88 Joan. Have a wonderful day. A wonderful evening. And yeah enjoy the opera. This is Rebecca KK 7 IJZ. Next on the list is Hunter. KK 7 N2N. What's up Hunter? Well hi Rebecca. It's been fun. More experimentation and learning. Been playing around with more NFC stuff. One of the guys that works at the shop actually has an iPhone so I can test it on an iPhone and Android. I found out you can do cool tricks and stack data together. So I found out you can stack. Like what I did, I made a bunch of key tags that people can basically tap to connect to the shop. And on the key tag is a text element stacked on top of a phone number, stacked on top of a link. And what you get is when you tap it with your phone it says the shop name, tap system. And then choose call or whip. And then below it has the option to call or go to the website. So yeah that's been pretty cool. I also found out that different chips respond in different ways. Like the stickers with the little PCB antenna have to be really close. You have to actually touch your phone to it. It has to be right on the antenna. So the key tags of the copper wire antenna will actually read from a good two inches away. And you don't have to be directly in front of the antenna. Which is kind of cool. I mean the whole NFC thing of the chip being powered off of the pulse from the reader is wild to me and cool. And the fact that I can transmit data with it on a passive chip like this is even cooler. And yeah, it's fun to experiment with. Especially doing what I'm doing in a business application here. Allowing customers to have the option of a key chain they just tap their phone to to be able to directly connect to the shop via internet or phone. Whatever way they choose. And same with checking in their car when they get to the shop. They just tap their phone on the wall on the right spot and then check them in. Because you can pass long contacts across this NFC easily. For text data or numerical data. It's honestly fun. It's so cheap to play with. The NFC tags and chips that I use are... The stickers are 9 cents and the key chains are 15 cents. So it doesn't even cost a lot. And you can program them with your phone too. So definitely a fun experiment. This is KK7NQN. Back to net.