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Yep, it sure is man. It definitely is. And I didn't pick it. It was, well I kind of did pick it, but it was given to me illegitimately in the beginning because I was actually scammed by a CB'er into taking a ham test that I apparently passed. And that's what they wrote down on the form. It was V01UKZ. So I was told I passed my test and I went out in the air and transmitting away, talking to people all around the world. We had a repeater with Equilink on it. One day I got a call, probably a month in, to operating. Not because I'd broken any protocols, but because my call sign was not in the database. And I was like, well what the hell? Like, dude came and gave me the test at my house and, you know, I passed it and all that. And they said, well, you may have gotten scammed because it was not in the database. So they had an actual examiner from, at the time, which was the Canadian equivalent of the FCC, which at the time was called Industry Canada. So he came and he administered the test and sure enough I passed and he said, well what's your pick for call signs? I said, well, I've been using V01UKZ now for a month, so I may as well go with that. And he said, well, if that's not available, do you have any second choices? And it turns out it was available. So I, after that, had registered the call sign I was using all along, which was V01UKZ. And I just stuck with it. Never changed it over the years, never really had a need to. Everyone used me as V01UKZ or down along the rock one way or the other. So I didn't feel it was necessary to go changing it or trying to, man, I get itchy back. They're scratching it on the corner of the wall. But, yeah, so I've used that call sign now for, well, in April will be 20 years. And I love this hobby. It's definitely like one of my favorite things to do next to IT related stuff. And I mean it goes along so well with IT related stuff. Because I mean I'm always banging away on a keyboard or something playing around. So I can run three monitors that are usually set up on the desk. And then my fourth monitor is my projector. So I can run three directly off the Mac Mini. Let me reset.