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Hey f8 dr. J. Good. We've sparked your interest in something. That's wonderful Wonderful on the nodes I'm coming up on the one-year anniversary for my high-power node. I got it's basically a repeater controller from um node ventures and It's called I think it's called the clear RPT and it's hooked to a mobile radio and for about a year now It's been transmitting out at 35 to 50 watts without a problem. I did have a problem for a while, but it was my own fault. I had the antenna switched away, so I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. It's because I was getting ready for a storm. I switched the antenna to ground, and it didn't work, but that didn't burn it up. It came up with high SWR, it was doing that, but it did that for about two weeks. and turned itself down. So the radio, it's a Yaesu radio, it's a good one. It's a good one, or Yaesu. But that's now been running for a year, I'm very surprised. I'm very surprised that you could leave something that is transmitting constantly. And I think my timeout timer on that thing is 10 minutes. But it's constantly booming out there, and the radio isn't getting any older, and certainly the node is working perfectly. Anyway, let's go to VL1-UKC. Carol, what is going on with Venezuela? Are the, I mean, what's gonna happen between us, the US, and Venezuela? What do you think? This is KC2-PKG.