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and the net at large, yes, I've been watching the weather with bated breath, I live surrounded by about 75 really tall Douglas furs, so yeah, windstorms are always a little worrisome here, although I guess it's great for them, but yes, not so fun in windstorms. a plug for a website and app, windy.com, looking at it. It shows you the different models, which is pretty cool. This morning, the NAMM, the North American model, looked like pretty scary, like really bad, and it's gotten a lot better. However, there's another model, the Rapid Refresh. I forget what the H is, but that one has worsened, I guess, but it's showing like a much tighter concentrated storm It looks like it's going to blow through in just a couple of hours, about 12 to 1,400 local time. But yes, winds, that could be around 60, maybe a little more miles an hour. And Port Townsend, that area looks like it has the worst of it. So good luck to everybody in the area. I guess storms and power outages is something It does happen this time of year, and I guess it makes amateur radio that much more interesting when that happens. Thinking back to the beginning of October when we had an 18-hour power outage here is what got me back into the hobby after kind of neglecting in the last few years. So I guess silver lining's there. Today, actually last night, I mentioned setting up mesh-tastic nodes, and I ended up, right after the net, getting out an SDR and debugging what was going on there. And indeed, one of these six-year-old Haltech V2 dev boards is apparently broadcasting at 490 kilohertz higher than it should be. So adjusting the frequency in the software made everything just work, which is pretty cool, and I guess a good use of an SDR for a diagnostic tool. So that's, I guess, a nerd cred point in my bucket there. So today I got a newer Haltech V4 that came in the mail and flashed it. So I've noticed that inside my office here, I really can't get to anything outside the mesh, or outside the local area into the greater mesh. Collier line going up 28 meters in one of my tall Douglas for trees for the dipole. So I put the new board in one of those gelato containers that sealed shut pretty well, drilled a hole, mounted the antenna in that, and tied it around the hotline and raised it up. And yeah, it gets a whole lot of repeaters. So that's great. I'm now on regional mesh for mesh network. So I look forward to having some fun with that. And anyway, that's 73 to the net, KE7 in UI.