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This AB6MB, oh God, about 15 years ago, maybe longer, when the Mir space station, the Russian space station, it was summer. We went up my buddy's place up in the hills. And I had my HT. And I said, my buddy who wasn't here, he was trying to listen to the Mir space station. Now on there, the only thing they would do was pack a radio. And so it was clarinet. And so I turned and put my radio on the frequency that Mir was, which I don't remember what it was now. And then so all of a sudden, we were listening. And all of a sudden, we could hear the sound going ee, ee. And then it would go ee, ee. And it got louder and louder. And it got brighter and brighter. And when it came over the top of us, literally, it was rattling my radio. Because it was coming, the signal was so strong off of it. And when it got right to the highest point, it must have got a perfect reflection, I guess, from the sun. Because all of a sudden, it had a big burst of light. And then we saw it coming down and going down. And still the whole time going ee, ee, ee, ee. And then it went off the horizon and away it went. And my buddy who was not a handle was very impressed. I was impressed. What the heck, man? That was really something. Anyway, that was a lot of fun. But the space station is the top and coolness. And the Mir is a distant second. So back to you, Bill. AB6MB. AB6MB, K7WSB. I have to say, Jeff, you do a fantastic invitation of a digital signal from a satellite. We could launch you and have great communication. And I'm sorry to tell you, but Mir is longer ago than 15 years ago. It's way the hell back then. I just Googled it. It was in orbit from 86 until 2001. So it's way back there. Ancient history. A lot of younger folk probably never heard of the damn thing. All right. Thank you, Jeff. Let's see. Now we're going to pop over and talk to Kingston Bill, KC5WSH. Come ahead, Bill. Thank you, Bill. K7WSB, KC5WSH over here in sleepy Kingston. Bill, good day over here. Wife and I loaded up this morning. Got down one cup of coffee before we hit the trail and motored over to Fort Townsend. We're in a rut, I guess. Let's see, stopped at the little cafe there at the airstrip and had the usual fare. It was a cloud cover. Cloud deck pretty low. So that's going to curtail the folks flying in and out there. Let's see. Stuck around there for a bit. Then we went on into town, Fort Townsend. Some kind of a change going on there at the boat haven. A lot of things were out of pocket. I'll use that term. A lot of the boats that you typically see in locations where they're doing a bottom job on them, they weren't there. So I'm not sure what maybe a big administration shake up there. I'm not sure. Then we went on over, let's see, to Whimper's Mercantile there. I don't know if you're familiar with that place. Dry goods, clothing, sporting goods, and so forth. And they've got a big change up in the parking arrangement. And you got to watch your step. It's not pay parking, but if you stay too long, I don't know what they do. They may get after you with a big switch. But from there on over to the farmer's market and walked through there and the usual fare, pristine vegetables. So that's what we did. And we had a fun time returning. We got hung up in something crossing there at the canal bridge. So I'll leave it at that. This is repeater station. Oh, I bet your butt hurts by getting hit by the alligator there, but we heard you just about up to the end. Actually, let me just toss it back to you and make sure you were done. Go ahead, Bill. Yes, I did. Yeah, I think I'm bleeding here. I better check. Well, anyhow, got to cut it a little too close. Good day for us over here. Got back home before dark, and all is well. So good day. All right, thank you very much, Bill, for picking her up. And I want to send you a text to see if you followed through on the gentleman over here in my neighborhood that may have been helped on that HF arrangement there. I'll leave it at that. Kind of a messy comment, but I think you know what I've talked about. Carry on, everybody. Have a good night and a good day tomorrow. KC5, WFH. KC5, WFH, K7, WFB. Thank you, Bill. I passed that along to Rich, and I think he's following up on that. I'll be in touch with you. But you had your usual tour over to Port Townsend. I got to come up sometime and join you for that. Just always sounds like fun. Thanks so much. And let's see. Now we have another visitor from the remote parts of the internet, ZS4DP. Come ahead.