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Yeah, actually you're talking about the same radio and in both of them. Yeah, the scout was a It was basically a single band radio that had modules that you'd pull out and put in and there there you fight You can see them on the market. They still have I mean they've held their value. Well and And that but yeah In 94 when I was down in Haiti I had a an army Mars radio that the Mars guy let me let me use and it was the Paragon the only difference between the Paragon and the Five or the Omni six Omni five and six and six plus the the difference was the Paragon had The receiver was a general coverage receiver and what made the Omni so good for contesting is it was hand band only so they could put better filtering in it and Right now I've got a an icon 7300 which is an awesome radio. I love it But the one of the pot and it's one of the things they corrected with the newer 7300 mark 2 is it it only has one Coax input and you can't run a separate receive antenna and if you want to do anything on on 80 and 160 you you almost have to have a receive antenna of some sort and and the Omni has got the the Omni six and six plus has got the receive only antenna and It that that's why I wanted but when I was in Haiti I Did the 1994 worldwide CQ worldwide phone contest and I had the only station operational in the country and so the whole world was looking for me because I was the only one and I was logging with a notepad and a pencil. I still got that log and There are ten different places in that log Where I was making Four to five contacts a minute and You can't do that with a poor receiver and the filtering on that thing is just yeah Oh, no, if trust me trust me George if that Omni six is Operational for 500 bucks You know, I I don't know what you're paying for that dual band radio But I know new I can't buy that 500 Dual band or for 500 bucks and you had to get that HF radio for 500 bucks It's a no-brainer. Go ahead Brian W2a