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Well, good night Joe. Thank you for Turn a knob there. I I I've got a super cardioid if I get off mic the slides fit suddenly my voice There I'm back So sometimes I have to reach over to touch the radio To turn it off. I have to go my off mic to do it. Anyway, that's excellent Joe And you know the the new modern way of having like well radio Well, you know, our very own N7KC, Lee Bond, was one of the geologists, who was also an amateur radio operator, was instrumental in creating the first generation of radio-linked remote sensors. In fact, when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, he was one of the people that helped designed those first generation sensors that were on Mount St. Helens. They could just use UHF. They didn't exist. You couldn't just buy them. They invented them. Lee Bond was the geologist that was instrumental in inventing that first generation of remote sensors that connected by radio. So I'll tell you that folks who was my first net control or net manager in a couple of months will be my 10th anniversary as a net control operator. But Lee Bond you're talking about the remote sensing and using radio and that is the first thing that comes to mind is Lee Bond's role N7KC's role in creating the radio telemetry from Mountain Health. When I was young 50 I got my first AM radio license 55 years ago and one of the earliest things I did when I was 13 years old is tune in WWV and and WWVH from Hawaii and they share they're synchronized down to the having their transmitter outputs in phase relation and and when you're receiving both it's great because you'll hear the man's voice from Fort Collins Colorado what they used to call Fort Collins Colorado I think we'll call that but they changed the name of the government agency. I guess we just leave it alone. Working fine the way it was. Anyway, I hope they don't turn off WWE. That would be the next step, wouldn't it? Anyway, in that last quarter minute of every minute, you know what I'm talking about, Joe. In the first half of that last 15 seconds the man's voice from Fort Collins would say you're tuned to WWV and blah blah blah and then the second half of it would be the woman's voice from WWVH and if you could receive both of them the way you could tell you were receiving both signals transmitting together on the same frequency, you would hear a ball. And it wasn't single-side bands. It's easy to get that where they use it in the Second World War to interfere with the German transmissions by inventing single-side bands so they could have the voice flooding in. That's another story. They don't explain that. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that. That's how they did it. That's the invention of single-side bands. anyway, of carrier suppressed. Carrier suppression actually. It hasn't been dual sideband, but carrier suppression. But anyway, blah blah. WWD, I'm not supposed to talk about this. Anyway, fascinating. Take care, Joe. Sean, AJ7EXM, it's your turn.