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That's OK, George. Yeah, it's me, W-E-2-A, Whiskey Echo 2 Alpha Canadian for us, W-E-2-A. But yeah, I've been looking at some of those new mobiles of the different flavors. And the big thing that gets me is that they each came up with their own proprietary digital mode. And up where I live, there's none of that. There's no digital modes, basically. It's all still analog. But I did find that one of the repeaters is finally hooked up to the Echo Link type stuff. And I've heard a couple of guys check in to what I thought was a local machine. And they were out in Michigan or down in the Carolinas or something, or out by New York City. And it's like, well, I'm clear up in upstate New York on the Canadian border. But I don't know which way I'm going to go with the FM at my place. I'm more of a weak signal guy. And I've got to put that. Let me reset. I've got to put a 30-foot tower up right behind the learnatorium to hold my VHF, UHF stuff. And it'll be some Roan 25G. I've got it laying around the house. But yeah, it's going to have all my VHF, UHF stuff on it. And our local club, where the club is located, because we actually have a clubhouse, we own property, it's kind of down in a hole. And not many people can hit the repeater. And so if I put a tower at each end of my garage and one taller than the other, I'll have the horizontal separation. And the big problem is the cavities, the cans. They put so much loss into it that you can hear the repeater, but people can't hear it because it uses a single antenna. Where if I can put it at my place and run separate transmit and receive antennas, I don't need any cans, and so any filters on it. So I've got to talk to the president and see what's going on there. And then they've got a 220 repeater that is all complete, but they can't use it. They don't have a place to put it up. And I'm going to see if I can buy it from them. And that way, I'd put the 2-meter and the 220 repeater in my garage and have a separate transmit and receive antenna on those things there. But that's next year. I can't even get to it this year. But go ahead, Brian. W2A.