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QST, QST, QST, good morning, and welcome to the Worldwide Friendship Net for December 20th, 2025. This net starts at 7 a.m. Pacific time, 10 a.m. for the Eastern people, and 1,500 UTC at this time. My name is Dave, the call sign is Alpha, Bravo 7, Delta Whiskey, and I'm located in Aloha, Oregon. Before we begin the net, I'd like to thank the following people for the use of their repeaters and reflectors. That would be Michael Wolfus, 8MW for the use of the 9617 Michigan Reflector, and the 96170 Michigan Conference Server. I'd also like to thank Darrell Warford, BO1UKZ, for linking in the DoDropIn and the DoDropIn2, and nodes so we can all get together here all across the continent and we'd also like to thank all the node owners and all of you for being here because without you there wouldn't be a net but there has been for about 17 years straight now. Emergencies take top priority in this net and every other net on amateur radio. If you have an emergency that we can help with please break the net with a double break. We'll stop the net and help you any way we can and then return. If you're mobile or short time, please let me know this when you check in and I'll put you at the top of the list so you don't have to drive around with a microphone in your hand. This is a popular net and to make it fair for all users, check-ins lasting more than four minutes including mic drops may be muted to allow other people to get in. This net is available to all amateur radio operators worldwide. Anybody with a license can get into this net and we encourage you to do so. Question of the week is, we are five days away from Christmas guys and what are your plans for this week coming up? Are you going to be traveling to relatives or somebody, some other place? Are you going to be flying, driving, what? I'd like to hear, see what you're doing. Before we do that, we're going to take the first round and the first round is going to be mobile and short time only. Mobile and short time only stations. Please come now with your call signs slowly, in phonetics, and twice.