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Bill just sent me the model number as well. I'll look it up. Yeah, I've looked at those Starlink Mini systems, Gray. Incredibly cool. The antenna or the dish itself is only the size of a sheet of paper. And hardware. You just plug this thing into power and it gives off Wi-Fi. Now apparently within the next year or so, Elon is supposed to be coming out with the Pi phone and the Pi tablet. And apparently those, both of them are going to get connected directly to the Starlink network. You're not even going to need any phone or data plan on the thing. You just connect it right up to the satellites. Now I'm wondering if it's going to become mainstream. If that were to become mainstream over the next several years, how would that work indoors? I'm betting it wouldn't work indoors at all, would it? This is repeater station kilo kilo seven, November Quebec November. Yeah, I think you'd have a problem indoors. So if you take your tablet outside of your phone outside, yeah. They must have some kind of backup though. They must have like a cellular backup for it or something like that. Because that'd be difficult. But the Starlink Mini, you know, it goes outdoors. You know, it can sit on a table. And my question about that is, okay, so the original Starlink antennas and themselves, you know, they can rotate and they can tilt on their own. How does the Starlink Mini do that? Does it have little motors in it? It does it itself? I can't wait to find out. I'm excited. I'm excited. Thanks for letting them comment there Russell. Back to you, 01UKZ or KB9, NSC. I'll just grab it one more time. No, the Mini does not move on its own. It gives you an indicator in the app as to where the satellites are. You actually have to tilt it and then you just lock it in. I think I guess with a couple of wing nuts or something. But yeah, I think that's how it's done. It doesn't need calibration like the original ones do. But now apparently like when you're driving and stuff like that, it'll keep a satellite locked. If you've got it on top of a motor home or something, it just lays flat and points directly up at the sky. And apparently that's enough for it to keep lock on a satellite when you're on the open road. So I don't know. It'll be interesting to see. I wonder if it's on top of your car, like on a luggage mount or something.