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That's fantastic, Mark. Well, thank you, thank you so much for sharing. You've done so much, obviously, as far as going through the old kind of licensing levels there and everything else in the US. I'd say fantastic. Well done. Congratulations. Mark, I've just been nosy now, sir. I'll be passing it on to my friend Dave out there in Newport South Wales shortly for the second part of the net. Mark, I'm just not going to let you go too quick because I'm just interested. Over the last year, have you put up any antennas outside? Are you working on VHF and UHF? Anything else? Have you got your HF stuff? Any kind of short-lived things going on? Are you relying on all the voiceover internet protocol stuff like your notes and hotspots and everything else? I don't even know how you're connecting today. You're sounding great. Mark, can you just tell us what certain connections have you been using over the last year since you got licensed? I would like to know. I'm sure loads of people would like to know, and you're sounding great. Great connection wherever you're coming from. If you don't mind, sir, can I throw it back to you one more time? Sure. I've used a little bit of everything. I'm in a very technical profession. I'm a video director, a television director by trade, and I work at a local church in the Houston area, so the technology has never scared me away. I have a nice HT. It all started with getting a BaoFang UV5R for Christmas, and I had that for a little bit, and then I found an open box deal on a really nice ICOM handheld, and I got that. And then a couple months later, I found a really nice estate sale deal on a 7300. I don't really have a lot of antennas yet because I haven't decided exactly what I want to put up in our neighborhood, and so I don't want a major hex beam shooting around corners and all that kind of stuff. So I essentially have a PODA antenna that I set up, you know, like on Thursday afternoons, and it's set up about a week until our lawn people come and have to do the lawn. I have to take it down, but yeah, I do that in the digital modes. I'm on the like the free speak app or whatever that was recommended by y'all when I first joined up, so and that's why I'm actually sounding pretty good right now. Back to you, Graham.