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They are KD0MAI. I remember them too, Gray. You can still buy them. You can buy them online. I've seen them. And they're a little, I think, a tenth of a watt or a half of a watt. And they only really broadcast about 100 yards from wherever you're transmitting from. 150 yards. I know the FCC is very specific how far they can go. And who used it was basically, well, car dealerships used them, different stores, we could advertise it and let people listen in under our radio station, which is kind of silly because we only got 150 yards to be able to transmit Before the person tuned it in, you'd be out of range again, you know, that kind of thing. And then they did tell them a couple of years ago, we'd get a crew that would come out and they'd do the whole yard and Christmas lights. And then they would play music, which was royalty free, and it would sync up to the lights and you could turn on your radio in your car. to be a sight out in the front yard saying tune to 106.9 or something like that and you could listen to the music as it was sticking to the lights and I bet that was pretty cool too. And I've seen that in a couple years even. Now back in the 1980s I had a fellow truck driver and he was big into pirate radio and he was an owner operator and he ran his station out of his truck. He actually had an FA transmitter in his truck and every night when he stopped he would set it up real quick and he did count as something like a Truckee Bozo show, a Dale Summers show and he was quite good at it and he would get out, I don't know man, I can't tell you, it a 200 watt station so let's say on a good night 15 miles 20 miles something like that but you know it being so illegal I don't think he ever got into trouble and I think because he went from place to place to place they never could track them down even even if they wanted to and the range was so limited. Oh, good. The range was so limited that, you know, they'd have a hard time picking up no matter because I mean, he'd be a totally different thing every night. No reset. And thank you for the encouragement or the encouragement. Thanks for doing a job. I would take that credit but I did it for one reason and one reason only, take care of my family. I didn't do it for you all. It's just something that I could do and that's probably about the same as all the other truck drivers out here. They're out here because this is something that they could do and they thought they could make some halfway do something. Some of them do, some of them don't. But it is a hard hard profession to be in, but what kept me going was just making sure that it was food on the table for my family. Anyways, that's how I always felt about it. Is there anything else I want to talk about? Oh, our magistrate. Yes, if you have drugs and you're transported supportive across state lines, you are going to go to jail. You know, everything he mentioned was things that are most definitely against the law. But you can look after court case after court case after court case where people were trying to express their opinion or use their freedom of speech or other constitutional rights, and they were arrested, and they won their battle in port. Not all of them, of course, but there were people that did win. So it's not a, I guess, I'm trying to say, it's not a futile endeavor if you really got the hard port and you're willing to fight for what you think is right. So now, like I said, if you cross state lines with guns or drugs or drugs or whatever, something, maybe federal crime, yeah, you might as well just go ahead and jump in the jail cell and lock the door for them and throw the key away, because you're going to be there for a long time. Anyhow, back to Met Control, KB0MAI.