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Thank you very much, Roy. Yeah, I appreciate that very much. Okay. Burnt resistor or diode? Got it. Okay. And of course I got all these handbooks too. I got a six volume of the A-R-R-L communications 2023 editions. It was gifted to me by one of my ham friends here, Glenn, a VA Victor Alpha 6 Golf Charlie. And so it's got a lot of useful information in there too. So yeah, always look for a burnt resistor or a diode. Gotcha. Yeah, I had a feeling it was somewhere in the board. Of course most of the board is on the top side and of course the fuse holder is on the bottom side. And to make things easier I'm trying to disconnect the male end of the 5-pin wire connector. Well, you know those ones. They're plastic, right? You got to push in a little tab just so you can pull them apart, just so you can access the rest of it. Or I can just, yeah, trace it to a dial or a resistor. And then hoping I have one in my other radio that I can replace it with. So there we go. Okay, let's throw it over to Papi, N7RH3. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November... Yeah, I had a transceiver once, I don't know, it quit operating on me, and I left it over to a good friend who is now Silent Key, key, but he was our go-to technician when it came to repairs, and he always kept a repeater up and running so nicely and everything else. He had to scratch his head a little bit because he couldn't see any spots burnt or anything else. But just like the solder just melted away or something or other. No trace, no beads of solder anywhere inside the radio. It took him a little while to figure it out, but eventually he figured it out and re-soldered the joint and it came back to life. He couldn't see any kind of burnt spot or anything. It was of those real weird reasons why it didn't fire up and I think one of you know and let him have it for I don't know how long but he eventually got it back then one of them I never really did get back and I find it fun I finally did get it back as well I kind of stole some stuff off of it one of the other guys needed a microphone and oh well he's part of the group you know that was a spare anyhow so I didn't care but he's I just thought you're never going to come and get it but as oh well long as I help somebody else out who cares I got more radios that I know what to do with it at this point in time anyhow and I've I've collected more than that since. So there you go. And I've got two or three mobile rigs here in the motor home. And I'm actually going to probably put one of them in the Taurus when I get it running again, if it quits raining long enough to go out there and put that starter in. But because I have a garage to work in, so there you go. and 7 hours.