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Good morning, Dave, everybody on net. By the way, Dave, I sent you an email a couple of days ago. Maybe take a look at that. In totally unrelated news, working 10M DX right now, they've got India coming in and Morocco coming in to the West Coast. So 10 meters after a couple of weeks of not so great weather, not so great propagation is picking up. But that's not why you called on me. Network is working reasonably well, except the IRLP is still not connected to the Canada Hub. So yes, you can connect to 9029 and talk to other people on reflector 9029 on IRLP, but 9029 is not connected to the rest of the Canada Hub. I met with the illustrious founder and owner of IRLP, Mr. Dave Cameron, last week, or a few days ago, and I was chatting with him. And I think we've got a path to pursue. We're also working with the folks who wrote the Hamboip software. So we'll figure it out. But right now it's still not connected. Although we do have a guy, terrible, can't remember the calls right now, doing a great job of cross-connecting to 9029 by his node in Saskatchewan during the net. So he may be connected right now and saying, why is he saying all this for? It's actually working. So I appreciate that help during the net time. And that's it. Oh, I'll just take a quick reset. I've got another update. Okay. The other update is we had a very successful test last Monday of sending images from what will be the transmitter on our high altitude engine over 900 megahertz to a receiver at Scott's place. So we did a test that basically showed that we can do it with as little as we can. We did a five kilometer test with simply the equivalent amount of power, one half of one milliwatt. Okay? So 0.0005 of a watt at 925 megahertz. And into a seven element YAGI, we got a pretty much 95% successful image. A few pixels missing, but it was pretty cool. And that's a good test because we can extrapolate that information and if we power up to 50 milliwatts, we know we can basically get images from the balloon throughout its flight when it goes 30 kilometers above us. So this is really interesting. And it's a big step for us because we've been working on this for, oh gosh, I've got to tell you a year. So now we can start planning our flight. We've got everything working and we'll package it up. Of course now is the worst possible weather to do this and it's probably going to be, I sent an email to people saying probably in December, but frankly with everything else that's going on through with contesting and travel and other activities through December and bad weather, we're probably looking more likely to do it. So it's finally coming together and we'll have more updates on that when it happens. We'll be streaming all that stuff live, the crossband repeater. We'll be streaming the videos, snapshots, which are going to be updated every 30 seconds. We had a picture from the balloon. It's going to be super cool. Anyway, I'm obviously in a chatty mood tonight. I think I've talked long about it too. Back to you Dave and thanks for running the net. VE7 November Zulu in very sunny Vancouver. Okay great. Thanks Adrian. Thanks for the update and yeah, I'll check out my email after the net there and get back to you. Very interesting updates. Thank you so much for that. Appreciate it. All right. So with that, I'm going to move from Adrian's update to short time check-ins. So again, short time check-ins for the nets. If you do not want to answer the question of the week, which is what in ham radio excites you these days? If you don't want to answer the question or if you want to do a short time check-in because you've got to leave quickly, now is the time to do it. So short time check-ins. Please join us now. Okay, that's something we haven't seen for a while there Dave. Let me just do a couple of clicks here and you'll be back in business. Sounds good. Let me know.