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Good evening Bill and everybody on the net. Good seeing you, or actually I don't think I saw you, I heard you on the educational meeting today. I saw your box came up, but I think it was blank or it had a letter in it, or it had a B in it or something. But I don't think I actually saw you. That was a really good presentation. I think it was very well researched. And I made a comment about how throughout the presentation I would have these questions, and then Mike would go ahead and answer the questions. He covered, it was very thorough, he covered a lot of different things regarding satellites, amateur satellite communications, the ISS and all that. So I would recommend everyone who wasn't there go look it up on the PSRG website. I don't know if it is up there yet, but I know they are going to put it up there. Yeah, pretty good conversation about Skype and Google Voice and all that. Being the cheapskate that I am, I remember when Skype came out it was so great to be able to make long distance calls for free. I had this little USB phone. I would plug it into the USB port on my MacBook, and it looked like a little phone, and it even had a touch pad on it. That was probably like 2006 or something like that, almost like 20 years ago. Then Google Voice, I do have a Google Voice number, but it doesn't seem to work for certain services. Like I remember trying to sign up for Uber, and it didn't recognize it as a proper phone number. I think it is like a trunked, it's not actually my phone number even though I am the only one that uses it. But anyway, just a few weeks ago I got T-Mobile. I've mentioned this several times on the net. So it's Brooks, he mentioned his problem earlier with a truck hitting, had an accident and knocked down his line. But with T-Mobile I have this modem. It's basically like a 5G modem, and it works great. The bandwidth is like 200 megabits up and down. I've got that whole T-Mobile plan. I've got my phone. They gave me Apple TV, and they gave me Netflix. I guess I can use it. There is a GoGo Wi-Fi thing on when I fly now. Anyway, they roped me in. I got it at Costco. It took like 10 minutes to sign up for it, so I got rid of my Xfinity. Anyway, great net tonight. This is KG70DB. KG70DBK7WSB. Yeah, Dean, thank you. That educational meeting was really good. Anybody who has even a slight interest in fussing around with lights talking, using the ISS as a repeater, it was really good. The fellow Michael who presented, he just had a lot of experience and he just answered – we didn't have that much time for questions. During his initial presentation he just sort of went through the whole thing in a really matter-of-fact way, giving a lot of tips on experience. So if you have any interest, mark it down and check out that video when it comes out. Really quite good. Oh, and T-Mobile. Yeah, and I use Google Voice. My regular number is Google Voice. I found the services. It's really handy the way I use my phone and my computers, but I have had that problem. Uber does not like it. And there are three or four other outfits that will not accept the Google Voice number. I don't quite know why, but that's the way they do it. Very good, Dean. Thank you. Now, Jeff, let's come back to you. AB6MD, are you there, Jeff? How are you doing?