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Well, good evening, Bernas and Annette. Well, I'm in between, I guess. I'm an old guy, 77. I've been a ham since I was 13. There was a period of time in my late 30s and 40s when I was very interested in astronomy. And I built a couple of telescopes. And one in particular, this is what kept me listening, is I have still all the parts for an 8-inch Newtonian reflector, including a mirror that I ground and polished myself. I no longer have a tube, but I have these parts on this mirror, which I would happily give to someone that wanted to restore it and make a usable telescope out of it. And I've made a couple of notes about your website, and I'm going to contact you later. And I'll send you some pictures of this gear and make it available to any, particularly a young person who'd like to own an ice scope, I think it could be restored. The mirror needs recoating. But anyway, that's my main interest. Nowadays, my primary interests are music and ham radio. So thanks for letting me in the group. And I'll be listening for a while. And I'm also interested in the flight simulators. But we'll go there some other time. Thanks for letting me in. This is K1KFC, David in Belfast, Maine. This is repeater station Kilo Kilo 7, November, Quebec, November, all star node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. All right, David, welcome. Welcome. I've been doing this for 30 years. So you were probably in your 40s when I was doing this, just starting out here. But I was local. I've just spread out and gone global. Off and on for a few years through All Star, but now with the Sky Hub Link system, it is definitely global one way or another as well. Let's see. Also, yes, check out the IAAS website. It is a youth group. If you've got the parts, I think we've got the tubes. Uh, there's Jim, N0COT, uh, founder, actually, check all that out to get something from you there, David, for sure, and I'm sure there's, uh, some interesting parties here as well, who knows. Um, alright, uh, this is, we're getting, uh, the W0SKY, uh, Echo Link, uh, Echo Link. And I saw that, uh, I don't know if you have, uh, let him know what's going on, but, uh, Right now, I'm just going to continue on with the net. All right, we did Michael. Oh, Graham. We've got Graham on the list as well. Just a sec. I'm going to let this reset. Good.