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Good morning Dave and all on that. Good to hear you again there Dave. It's been a while since I've checked in and heard you. Yeah, here we are. I'd like to say the hobby of hobbies. I love it. I think the two most things I am happiest at with the ham radio is putting up or multiplying or relocating my antennas, wire antennas or what have you. Outside putting stuff together, I just put up a G5 RV after all these years. I thought I'd try a commercial one and it seems to have checked out on the VNA as expected. So we'll be looking forward to that in the winter. And as Emil mentioned, I like to throw out my CQ on one of my favourite bands, Seventeen, and always interesting to see who comes back to my CQ. So that's what sort of turns my crank as they say. The E3 UJK in almost ready to snow tiny township. Back to you Dave. The E5 UO. Thank you very much. Very good John. And thanks for your check in today. It is great to chat with you again. It's been a while for sure. And I do see via your QRZ page here as well that you've got a two element quad on Seventeen. That must be interesting. I bet you that works fantastic. I hope to work you on the band sometime. I don't have any dedicated, I shouldn't say don't have any, I have a 30 metre wire. But I don't have any dedicated antennas for the other work bands. But I can load up some of the other antennas that are on the tower here and it seems to work okay. One of those things to do in retirement for me which will not be in the too distant future. Starting in the new year. So hopefully a little more time to play ham radio and do some antennas and things like that. More antennas, more homemade antennas. Thanks again John. Great to hear from you. And I'll move down the list to Victor Alpha 3 Whiskey Bravo Kilo. Joel in Castleman, Ontario. Welcome to The Net. And Joel, what are you into in ham radio? What is exciting you about ham radio these days? Go ahead. This is Victor Alpha 3 Whiskey Bravo Kilo. What fancies me currently on this great hobby? There's so many stuff that I do want to explore in this hobby. But currently and probably for this winter season it's going to be some home brew stuff. I'm going to be trying to home brew my own little antenna. It'll be a 2 meter tape yaggy. I think it's the first one on the list. And after that it'll be probably some transceiver, a little kit that I'll find somewhere. And I'll have a blast for this winter. And hopefully the warm weather is going to push me into doing other home brew stuff on the outdoor and bigger size. Back to Net. This was VA3 Whiskey Bravo Kilo. Connecting to Echolink VE4AWB. Connected. Alright. We're connected to a Manitoba Echolink station. That's awesome. Okay, thanks Joel. Appreciate that. And you got me thinking about building a QMX Plus, one of those QRP Labs kits possibly this winter as well. And looks to be a completely crazy functional QRP transceiver. Not as interested in the SSB side of things, but just as a code radio or digital radio. Okay, thanks Joel. Appreciate it. And yeah, have fun. Enjoy the winter projects. And we have warm weather to look forward to. It's about minus 10 here in Saskatoon right now. A little bit of healthy dose of snow on the ground already. But we'll be warming up tomorrow and it will melt off. It should be plus 9, plus 10 here tomorrow. Alright, more check-ins from Eastern Canada, Ontario and East. For the Trans-Neonette Control Station by the way. Myself Victor Echo 5 Uniform Oscar. My name is Dave and I'm located in Saskatoon. So any further check-ins from Canada, please join us now. Victor Echo 3 Oscar with the Tango VE3 OWT. Champion Volvo.