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a weak signal mode. And basically the, probably the more important part would be your transceiver. You need to have one which will be compatible with a notebook computer where you can use that for an output. And your antenna can be given a simple resonant vertical, it can be a dipole, depends on what band you're going to operate. And you know I use a small band vertical, it's a loaded dipole, in other words mine goes from 80 meters up to 10 meters. And basically FT8 is really an easy mode because of the fact that again, well, you can work stations, clear down the noise on that. And the only thing I didn't like about FT8 was the fact that it was automated, so I'm talking about more of an automated system I like to rank to. But there is some other things that are happening in the world of ham radio and that's digital voice over HF. To me that would be the breakthrough. Then you can actually have voice communications clear down into the noise, so noise floor. And I do pretty good on side bands, so, and of course we have CW, but not everybody likes it such as me. Anyway, so that's what I say about that. And I'm harvesting fruit out of my garden in the backyard and everything is happening here really good. So I'm getting some really good crops with tomatoes. K6PKO, if I have a good one. Thank you so much for that K6PKO. And I didn't bring this up, but usually when I hear folks talk on radio, the weather always comes up. Five plants in the yard, flowers and shrubs and things like that have never been bigger. We are here in Eastern Ontario, Canada near Cornwall. I'm in St. Andrew's West, but I'm near Cornwall. And my hospices are almost double the size. They're on top of each other where they haven't been in years. And everything is just green and big and even the corn going down the highway there is bigger than I've ever seen it. So I think we're getting rain once a week or twice a week for the whole, since I don't think we've had a dry week yet. Okay, we are at the bottom of the list calling for check-ins from the USA one more time before we start with anyone from anywhere. Check-ins from the USA, please come down.