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Hi Brian, yeah two different spellings, but as I always say I answer to both check-in is the culmination of a long-term antenna experiment I set it up quite a while ago but I was always hesitant to transmit because I was physically pretty close to it managed to get it outside and I'm hoping everything sounds good. Maybe give me a little feedback on that in a minute. Let me know how I'm sounding But yeah, it's up It's working. And then I'm hoping in the spring to get something even more permanent going. About it, that was kind of my big achievement today. Thank you very much, KJ7CDX. Well, I'm happy to report to you your antenna is a success, at least on this repeater. I was looking at our voter scope here. If you are not aware, you can look at the voter scope if you go to psrg.org. And in the top right you will see a link for voter scope. and there is one for the 6-meter and one for the 2-meter. So if you click on the 2-meter it loads a webpage there and you can see all of the receiving stations that we have for this repeater. And we do have six of them online. And the way the system works is most of them are connected with Ham-WAN in between. And then they all connect back to the Capital Park Master and it chooses the strongest signal and that is what is relayed and transmitted back out on 146.96 from that Capital Park Master. So I was watching your transmission there and you were hitting Cougar at full 255 RSSI, just pegging it, no deviation. You also had a very strong signal on the Capital Park Master directly, and then a fairly on the Lake Forest Park receiver that we have. And I saw you were barely blipping the Magnolia receiver. So if you have not actually gone to the voter scope yourself, I would highly recommend doing that. It's a very good way to just kind of see how you're signaling. It doesn't necessarily mean you sound good or you're not over modulated, but it just shows that signal strength at least. So from the antenna perspective it's a really good way to just see how you're doing there. So yeah, happy to report you're hitting Cougar. I would almost even say you might even be able to dial back the power for how strong that was coming into Cougar. But yeah, Very well done there so happy to report that. So fruits of your labor are rewarded for sure there. So thank you so much Brian for that check-in tonight and congrats on that antenna and getting that placement there and we'll catch you down the log there. All right I am Brian, K-E-7, K-Z-H, this is the nine o'clock net. I better reset.