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Good morning, Commodore Roger, and good morning to the net, N7, NVS, GIM, sailing vessel Serena Azul, and QTH today is the mid-at-line of suburbs outside of Philadelphia where it's a cool but beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky here, and pretty calm winds where I'm at, and we're up to freezing here 32 degrees, although it should get to the 40s later today, and high pressure of 3057, and my project today is I'm just I loaned my favorite HT to my new member boat neighbors Steve and Carol and Carol is working away on getting her ham radio ticket and is making good progress and so they've been listening in from time to time so they've had that radio for a few months here and I bought two of them I coughed up the extra $29.95 or whatever a handheld cost nowadays. So I'm just charging up the one that I had on the shelf in the box because I cloned the previous one before before I loaned it. And I put in there every two meter repeater in frequency for Seattle as well as the local playback here as well the same for one and a quarter meter frequency repeaters and 70 centimeter and then I also put in all of the FRS frequencies and channel numbers and GMRS frequencies and channel numbers and all the marine VHF frequencies and channel numbers as well as all the NOAA weather radio channels and frequencies so it really was a radio that would literally do anything and well anything up to 500 MHz and FCC type approved. So the big challenge was finding an antenna that would do all that, but I found one from Smiley Antenna Company. You have to just remember how many increments of telescope you have to raise or lower depending on what band you're on. But anyway, so that's my project today is getting that new HD up and running so it'll be essentially my new all-band HD. So there's my ham radio report from today. Thanks for doing the net roger 73L and 7NVS. Wow, what a great ham radio report from you, Jim. That was a step by step how to do it all. And it sounds like you've got some good friends that are coming along, and we'll hopefully hear them on the net on a regular basis here soon. Let's try for David at K70E.