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Yeah, this is N0BF checking in. Hi Kevin. Well, I'm doing okay. I'm at the house here. Had a slow morning this morning. First time in a while I woke up with a little bit of a headache and cleared that up. Now I'm checking in here. So I've been playing with my new, I have a new audio digital device called M1KE. It's a hotspot and they have All-Star on there so I may be checking in here via that thing one of these days. Getting fancy. But in the meantime I do have my cell phone. It does work okay on D-Star. I think there's even a way to check in the D-Star to go there from there to here. But anyway, I'll figure, I'll figure that on my vacation to Florida where I have all this time in the sun. Okay, so did my Morse code today and that's my normal report. And boy, that is so much good for me to do Morse code QSO. And I ran to some old friends and then I talked to old friends on single sideband in Colorado. Got a great big end-fed wire antenna that goes 30 feet up in the tree in the oak tree. But anyway, that I even put my amplifier on 600 watts to lift up the neighborhood. Then I did breakfast, one and two. Don't think I, I don't know if I did three or not. I think it's a little bit chubby with all these breakfasts. Anyway, so back in that, please keep me on the list and zero bf. Oh yeah, you'd love All-Stars. You can hear yourself doubling. You can hear others too. And if someone quick keys you can hear that as well. And so it's great. Yeah, you'll love it. I use the hotspot on my phone. So I could say at least that. There's been times it's come handy when I have the laptop and I'm on the subway. I'm going through the Vancouver sewer system. I'm joking. I've tethered other computers to my hotspot before. And it's a newer day with that stuff. Old days, old school. It used to totally jam up your phone and make your phone all hot and everything and slow everything down. They're so more forgiving about it. Now, if you see the Telus and the Bell Canada commercials. Okay, I know you don't. But if you see those commercials here in Canada. In Vancouver we have Telus. In other places they have Bell Canada. And they're priding on the fact that their fiber service can support tons of devices. And people multitasking and running things all at once. Like on the Bell Canada commercials for their fiber network or the commercials for their fiber high speed. You see like a whole family with a whole bunch of kids. And they're all streaming. They've got speakers going. They've got multiple computers going. Basically they're networking. They're just taking the long way to tell you that they're networking. They're just making a big production out of it. Now of course not everybody's house is like that. They're doing the extreme example like the family of nine like I told you that I grew up with. Except we never were like that in our house. That stuff wasn't around. But yeah they're showing you like a house with nine people. I don't know everybody's got ten computers and ten phones running. And they're all watching big items and uploading huge video. Like they're telling you the most extreme situations that aren't even realistic. And that you know get with us because Rogers is whack. I guess that's the short end of it. So yeah and then they tell you the prices sound pretty good. But they always tell you about the retention. Well no not retention. No that's later. The attraction offers. You gotta be careful of attraction offers. You gotta think of the future. The future isn't only the next year. You know what I mean? Then they talk about retention deals. Because people get pissed off when they throw you off of the $35 or the $40 dynamite speed internet that you just signed up for. Right? Because they just gave you free heroin and they're signing you off and you're crying. Okay. Alright. So yeah you need your retention deals. Bell Canada is big on their retention deals. So that was Steve. Steve's in the building. Is there anyone else who would like to check in? We must be cooking with Gus. I haven't even set up the situation yet for the next round. You know I usually get ready to do that. We haven't done that yet. So like Kevin says, we must have been pretty busy on these first hours. So anyone else that would like to get in? We are on the second hour.