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AG7IK, K1KFC, well that's very cool. Well because I started when I was a kid and my father was a ham, my uncle was a ham, my brother was a ham, my older brother so I like to say I came to it genetically. And I was technically the least smart of the whole bunch but I was the best at the code. And I was studying music at the same time as I was learning code so and it's a lot of the same parts of the brain as far as timing and pitch and interpreting rhythm patterns. You know so and I still play music all the time too so I was away from it a long time at both periods as I'm away from ham radio and then I came back. And so now I live in a little apartment house where I can't have any kind of an antenna. So and I got re-licensed about a year ago through a friend of mine that's still an active ham and he's a buddy of mine around here, we drink a couple beers together now and then. And I found out about Echolink first and I've been on this now for a year. But then I found out about this remote ham system which is a software suite with a free download and I have the client software and I can connect to a remote ham rig and I can get on HS. And again to my friend that's here introduced me to a guy that's got five of these remote stations down in New Hampshire and on various frequencies and bands and different kinds of transceivers. So I could get on a 75 meter side band with some buddies around here and then I can get on 80, 40, 20, 30, 15 and 10 meters CW and I've been doing a little bit of that every day I really enjoy it. And I've been talking all over the world on CW so mostly stateside stuff. And everyone I talk to is 70 or 75 or 80 or 85 years old. Most of the good CW operators are old guys but any young person that's at all interested in it we encourage them to learn it. It's not necessary but it's not completely obsolete and if you enjoy doing it it's worth doing it. So back to you Jerry AG7IK K1KFC.