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Yeah, it is chilly. I've noticed that when I go outside, I'm more inclined to put on like a hat, and I didn't realize it's almost December, so there you go. Bundle up, it is mid-forties or something out there. And yeah, waking up early. I am not a morning person myself, but I know what you mean, that those days that you get up early, whether it's just sort of a fluke or you have good reason to, it's nice to have a little bit slower pace. I imagine, especially with kids, to be able to sort of enjoy that time a little bit more. So yeah, I definitely encourage it. And I've sort of settled on it's nice to sometimes force myself awake, but other times it's just so miserable that I can't fully commit to being a morning person. So waking up early tomorrow, sleeping in on Saturday, that's the plan. Let's see here. Oh, a mesh core repeater is set up. I have a couple of meshtastic nodes That I was just packing up as I ready for a move and thinking to myself I don't do enough with those these days So maybe I'll spend a little bit of time poking around and see what's involved in switching this mesh course to have something us to Justin thank you very much for checking in it is 930 almost on the dot next up on this list is Amy before I hand it over to Amy I'm going to identify this is k7 ll said my name is Ben. Thanks very much for bearing with us tonight. We are We are, what is it, halfway past the 9 o'clock net, the start of the 9 o'clock net. And keep an eye on IUX, what do you got for us tonight, how are you Amy? This is Repeater Station Kilo Kilo 7, November, Quebec, November, All Star Note 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. Justin gave me the perfect lead in that mesh core, it was exactly what I was going to talk about. I think it was Bill W.F.B., Saturday Night Host was the first person I heard mention Meshcore. And then of course after talking to him, Madeline switched over to Meshcore. For the longest time we have been trying to use Meshtastic. It's just a different firmware, Same technology, different kind of firmware. A bit of a different user experience and actually a bit of a different network kind of philosophy if you will. So yeah, we had been trying to use Meshtastic to span the ridge and throw our messages over the ridge of Beacon Hill to one another. And yeah, Meshtastic just wasn't working. But yeah, I think we went from like a 5% success, reliability and success rate with Mesh Hastic 2. I'd say somewhere in the 90% with Mesh Core. So I'm a big fan of Mesh Core and I've been having a lot of fun with it over the last week, week and a half. I think one of the big differences is that the way that this is set up it encourages people to throw up a bunch of repeaters and the repeater builds the mesh and then you have your companion notes as they call them that you use for messaging and they talk to the repeaters, repeaters send the thing down the line. So I see my map and I'm like I can see, my notes can see notes from like down in Olympia to the south to like Vancouver, BC to the north, stuff on Vancouver Island, and I was going to post a picture of this to the PSRG Facebook group but either this morning or yesterday morning I was downtown and I just I just sent a message out to the public channel I said greetings from sunny downtown Seattle and then somebody responded greetings from somewhere up on Vancouver Island like somewhere north of Nanaimo and I was like holy cats that's amazing that is an amazing relay so yeah I'm a big fan of mesh core that's all I got to say