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Oh, yeah, they've made so many different radios over the years, it's kind of hard to keep track of them all. I do know my very first radio that I got was a Heathkit Simplex, or QRP, excuse me, not Simplex, but a Heathkit QRP rig that did 80, 40, and 20. And it was pretty old when I got it. And I got a good deal on it, brought it home, got it on the air, and actually would receive. I'd never sent anything on it. And I only had my tech license at the time. I didn't have a General's. I still had to pass the code test, right? And decided to sell it. I put it on QRZ, and a guy emailed me saying he wanted to buy it. And I think I had a price tag. I was going to make money off the deal. I think I paid $100 for it, and I sold it for $250. And then I found out he was in Japan. And I said, I can't ship this to Japan because of the import duty tax and all this other crap is going to apply. And I have the damned if he says, you know what? That's no big deal. He says, just find out what it all cost and let me know. And so I went to the post office, I don't know what I had. And they told me what it was going to cost to send it. It was like $160 to get that thing sent to Japan and to pay the taxes at the time on it. And I emailed him back and told him. He says, no problem. And he sent me all the money right up front. And I mailed it off to him. I thought that was a very unusual deal, you know? The only other deal I ever made, I used to sell medium format film cameras. I'd buy them and resell them. And then I'd also buy developing equipment for black and white photography, enlargers and stuff like that. And I had this old fashioned enlarger. The guy says he wanted to buy it. I said, OK. He was in St. Louis. And this was a very heavy, very large enlarger. And he says, well, I'm going to come get it. And he says, meet me at the airport, Green Valley Airport. And at this time, I went up there. And he flew in on this plane. Some people got more money than they did. They know what to do with, that's for sure. Stopped, pulled in front of my car. We loaded up the enlarger. And he got back on the plane and flew back to St. Louis. I thought that was kind of unusual. Hey, Brian, I'm going to let you do the last because we got two minutes before the net. Back to you, Brian. KB0MAI.