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Yeah, everybody has their reasons, right? Me, I bought an old scanner, a crystal, well, it was a crystal scanner, and I bought it at some garage sale. It had a ham VHF frequency on there. I'd never hear anybody, and then one day I heard two hams talking, and I got interested in that. This was back in the late 80s, and then when I finally got out to Kansas City, I decided to get my ham radio license. I started off as a novice, and then I became a tech. I took the test, I think, the same day. I was one of them 30 years ago, but ... Excuse me, sorry about that. What was I going to say? Oh, so I wanted my generals, and at the time it was, I think it was 13 more-minute code that I had to take, or five. Like I said, it was a long time ago, but anyways, I took the test five times. Five times, Alan, and the only thing that saved me was I went to the same testing facility, and they always gave the exact same code again and again and again. I'd get some of it one time, and then I'd get some the next time, and I was recognizing it was the same test, and I went the third time, and then the fourth time, and on the fifth time, I gathered enough information for this test, on this test, to be able to answer the questions. That's how I got my general. It was just a few years later they got rid of the code. Here's my point. Since I passed the code test, and I was a general, I think for a consolation prize, because after a certain time you didn't have to take the code anymore, I should have been advanced to the next upper level of classification and privileges of being a ham radio operator. That would be a good thing or bad.