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Well I will ask, I will look him up in the QRZ later. By the way, as far as that small connector, folks that you are dealing with, which operator was this, was it Arthur? Yeah, I think it was Arthur. That's an SMA, and I think there's an SMB too, there's also K connector or something. But SM, I asked someone, what does that mean? And they said, sub miniature, duh. PL-259 is PL for PLUG and SO-239 is SO for SOCKET for some of their N-Connectors and everything else. I like N-Connectors. I have some, never mind, I'm going to talk about some cable I wanted to give away, but never mind. Never mind. And you can look up SMA connector in Wikipedia, which I just did. And yeah, there it is. trusty old sub miniature a oh there's a there's a cross-section of it I like that it's worth going to the page just to see this image and photograph of an SMA connector that's been sawed precision sawed in half so you can see everything inside of it looks like it doesn't have too much of an impedance bump looks pretty uniform in there. SO-239 and PL-259 actually are a terrible connector, just barely evolved from a banana plug. That's why you can plug a banana plug into them. But they've had one of the worst impedance bumps, yet we've standardized it in ham radio, except for us clever QRP operators and we've standardized on BNC a bayonet nut connector and the TNC is a threaded nut connector although there are all these apocryphal different explanations out there for what they stand for. Okay let's just go right to VY1 MGS Michael in Yukon what is the two-letter province code for the territory code for Yukon Michael and Take it away