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There are several organizations, groups in the Northern Virginia, D.C., Maryland area that invite you to the embassies. There's a club, there's the International Club of D.C. You can get on there, email us for free. And there's Events DC, which is another one that is a competitor. They do embassy events. Some of them are free, some of them are not. Tonight's was not free. The Austrian Embassy has a lot of events and they're almost always free. Concerts by Conservatory students, sometimes there will be people turning in the United States. I've met the Ambassador several times, the Ambassador from Austria. I met the Ambassador from Serbia on Friday night at the Serbian Embassy. Nothing special about getting invited really. You get on the mailing list and you get a ticket. Again, some of them are free, some of them are not. And they check you against the list. Some of the embassies are quite large, as the French Embassy is. And Serbia is a small, kind of cozy embassy. But it's a lot of fun. You see a lot of the same people at these events. And if you like to travel and you're curious about the world, it is quite interesting and I've enjoyed that. Not personal at all, Bill. I like to see people at these events and I like to meet people. K7WFB, this is AF4LL. Well, thank you Bill. That is absolutely fascinating. I had no clue there was a perk like that for living in that area. That is fascinating, makes me really envious. That just plain sounds like fun. Thanks so much. Well, let's see what KK7KHE Adam has to say. What's up? Oh, you're meshtastic Adam, aren't you, I think. Pardon me if I'm wrong. K7WFB, over to you. Good evening, this is KK7KHE Adam in Pocatello, southeastern Idaho. Not meshtastic, all-star node. Here I got a clear node. It's one of the greatest little devices I ever ordered. Pocket to you guys tonight on my 30-plus year vintage DHC1000 Motorola radio. It's one of the best sounding radios I have. It's one of the only ones I have that has complete logistics in it or logics in it. It's not like a radio on a chip like most of my QITs and my MAL things and stuff. So hopefully I sound pretty good to you guys. Didn't do a lot today, just some gardening, hanging out with my pets, waiting for my wife to get off work. Back to net. Have a great evening. KK7KHE. Adam, thank you so much. Pardon for the confusion. Adam up in Shoreline here in western Washington who does a lot with meshtastic. I guess your call just reminded me of his. But yeah, that Motorola, an old equipment I understand, just had really good audio. Yours is a little bit hot I think, but sounds really, you know, we can hear you. That's for sure. Sounds great. Thanks for checking in. Let's talk to Robert. KK7ZRY. Robert. Good evening everybody on the net. Glad to be with you this evening. I have an interesting dilemma. I was working today, I was rebuilding a deck, and I have a shop smith, a 1954 sort of all-in-one tool. I primarily use it as a table saw. Last weekend a friend of mine though, at his own house, had a little nip. He took a tip of a finger off. The kind of thing always scares me. It kind of begs the question, when is it time to say, you know what, I need to own a table saw anymore. So I'm looking at this beloved old piece of equipment and I'm asking myself that question. But anyway, that's a question without a solution. I do have a question though. I've got a radio question. That's a relative newbie. I got my ticket in March I think. I hear people use the word motoscope or motor scope. I do not know if I'm hearing that correctly. I do know what it is. It sounds like some sort of magic device and I am curious to know what it is. So I'll send it back to the net. KK7ZRY. Robert, thank you so much. This is K7WFP in Seattle. Not magic at all. It is the net you're listening to, created and sponsored by Puget Sound for PETA Group, uses a network of let's say hot five or six ears. In other words, the system has one, two, three, four, five, six, six hearing locations spaced around the Puget Sound. So we're sort of Puget Sound, sort of a bowl. So all around the bowl are these five stations in the mountains. And then the system samples the best signal coming in on a very frequent basis, milliseconds I believe, and the system votes for which one is getting the best signal and that's the one that passes on to the repeater. So that's why we call it a voterscope and you can find it for yourself if you go to our main page, psrg.org and let me just take a look. It's pretty easy to find if I remember. Let's see, where do you find it? Well actually if you go on the main page, if you just look over to the right, you'll see the two meter voterscope, also a six meter one. So that's what it is, no big magic. By the way, you've made some contacts before this I assume? This isn't your first contact as a HAN is it? No, I'm a regular visitor to the net. I work full time so I can't check in every day, but I do check in once or twice a week for sure. And do enjoy it, kk7zry. Very good, yeah I just, it's good to have you and as you know you're welcome anytime. I remember that Shopsmith stuff back from the 50s and yeah in the 50s, 50 wasn't the priority and fingertips were vulnerable, still are of course. I had a radio arm saw from the 60s, just as lethal and I came to the position where you are thinking about it a number of years ago and decided it was time. You can always get one of those super new table saws that have the immediate stop feature, you know, where they demonstrate with frankfurters rather than your fingers. They're pretty cool, so why don't you hang in there, I guess they cost a bit though. Anyway, thank you for stopping by Robert, love to have you, come by anytime. Let's talk to an, oh I can't even talk, Brooks, let's talk to you Brooks, come ahead.