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Okay, you seven in you I Arthur great to have you join us on the Insanity of repeater read about how are you sir? Go ahead. Hello, Jack. I'm the net. Yes. I was stuck in a meeting until 1255 camping to get out and See if I can hear you guys talk about repeat around about because it was a lot of fun this weekend. It was my first contest on radio and Really enjoyed it. It was definitely an an exercise of some brain cells coordinating, writing down call sign sheet while trying to listen and figure out signal reports and all that. And then jumping from that to programming the mobile rigs. Since we were going to Wenatchee Saturday evening and coming back the next morning, I doubled it with that and gave a really good excuse to program the mobile rigs which I have never done on the computer. I've just manually put a few repeaters in, so that was good. I am happy that the mobile rig has lots of repeaters. I actually need to add some that weren't participating, but that's now going to be easy to do. Unfortunately, I was not able to successfully make contact with the Ellensburg, the Moses Lake, or the two twist repeaters. Even though I tried quite a bit, I had my wife and I took turns driving and I had her drive wall going up Blewitt Pass. I figured the top of Blewitt Pass would be a good area for that. I did get some static in the response. I don't know if it was an automated echo or something, but I couldn't make it out from the Ellensburg two meter repeater, but that's all right. Also, there just may not have been a lot of people on there. I did traffic on some North Bend repeaters later on Sunday morning. But yeah, unfortunately with family stuff I wasn't able to get back on repeater roundabout, except for a few that I didn't successfully make acknowledgements from. But yeah, we'll be submitting that. And just had a lot of fun doing that. Thanks so much for the organizers of that and all the other fun contests that happen on radio. They make the hobby that much more fun. Yeah, so 73, and yep, great Monday to everybody. KE7 in UI.