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As you mentioned, the signal report, so it's an advantage wherein you can find out what your antenna can do and how far it can go when you're on the phone, single-site band, not on FDA. But you have the time on the phone, you're probably looking at patients on the plus side, plus one to plus 20, and depending on the band conditions and everything. But there might be some rare cases where you have negative band on FDA, and you can probably get a 4-1 QSO for audio and one signal on the negative band on the DX station. So that's one of the benefits of FDA. Learning how to operate your radio, and well, it's pretty much fixed on the setting. But on HF, you're probably playing with DNR, you know, some of the noise filters and stuff like that, and then your wide contour and what's the other one, there's four of them, wide contour. You know what I mean on the band, so you can zero in on the station you're trying to listen to. Back to you. Yeah, I've made a number of phone contacts. Usually, it's a little bit sketchier. I find the noise floor here where I am is rather high, so on a good day, it's around two or three. On a bad day, it's around five or six. But yeah, when it gets down low, I can make some pretty good contacts. I've been talking to people in Belize, Asiatic Russia, Western Russia, South America. So it's fun to make those long-distance contacts and, like I said, see where the radio waves can get me, KK7WID.