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to make sure. Josh, I responded on Discord, couple of responses to Doug's message there. It looks to me like he's trying to rewrite something onto his SSD card or USB stick. I did mention for him to be careful that he doesn't erase that stick or he's going to have to start, or erase that original card, or he's going to have to scratch. You've got to be real careful with your settings on Win32 Disk Imager or it will erase your source. If you don't have everything just right, I probably should have been more clear about that. But always be very, very mindful of your settings when using that because you don't want to erase the card. You want to create a new target and not mesh with your source. So that program works both ways, and I do understand TD in Linux. I've never used it personally, but I have heard of it. Josh, when it comes to creating an RF node, you're not going to go do that in the cloud. You're going to need a piece of hardware, mini PC, Raspberry Pi, something like that, and then you connect an RF interface to it. I'm not using a Pi Hatch or a Sherry node or any of those here. What I'm using is an USB sound card FOB, like a little FOB, and it's opened up. The transmit and receive and everything are wired into that. Then that, in turn, talks to Linux because it has support for those USB sound card FOBs. When you transmit, you receive through that, and then you connect it to any radio you want. Mine is connected to a repeater. You can connect it to a Simplex radio. You can connect it to whatever you want. The easiest way is to use a Pi with one of those Pi Hat things, or you can use a USB interface, a sound card interface that has audio in and out, but then you'd need to configure VOX because your cost line, your PTT trigger line is not going to be present. Now, in my setup, the PTT trigger line is triggered by an 8-pin comport by one of the pins in that. So when it receives information from the internet, it knows to key that repeater as if you were hitting a PTT, but it's getting that from pin one on the comport. So that acts as your cost or your trigger pin, and you could set it up that way. There should be some diagrams online and stuff about how to set all this stuff up. Mine, fortunately, was all done when I got the repeater, and it's been running for years with very little problems. The only problems I had were Linux related, not RF related. So I've learned how to fix those issues since, and now I'm using a lot of Linux because I have three devices here in my living room alone now. Four, calendar.