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AJ5IR2, this is KC2, PKG. That image is from one of my original columns. The paper, Gannett wanted a picture of me to go over the column, and so that was it. So that's like 15 years old. I don't look that much different, but I am bigger. I am much bigger than that. So that's that. I use QRZed a lot. I mean, I look people up on QRZed always. And I'm a member, or paying member of QRZed. There are other people who get a lot more out of it than I do, though. I have links for some pieces of software to go to QRZed, so it can do an instant look up, you know, as you're keeping a list or doing something like that. that I use it for people buy and sell and QRZ Chuck is a big person for doing that and reviews and stuff like that. It's um, I Think it's invaluable. It's a great thing. It's like the phone book of the world QRZ and also You know, you have to look at some people and ham radio is so varied and there's it's like being a doctor, you know There's a million different specialties. I I do I don't do a lot of ATS. I think Dan was talking about this. I just don't do it I don't find it very interesting to do it and I get much clearer signals with with Echolink. I do do satellite work which is fun and You know, I've moving antennas and stuff like that a bit, you know make that all very possible And it's cool, but you can find out what kind of specialty someone is usually into and I have a lot you know I have commercial licenses too so I get on the commercial bands and and that can be fun especially when you live in the fishing area like Peter and I live in the Maritimes and so you can listen to those fishing boats all day long they go way out on the Atlantic and but you know they usually usually get up at 2 30 in the morning that's when the engine starts on the fishing boat and out they go. I was, I heard this yesterday, yesterday afternoon, that the board of the Kennedy Center has voted to change the name of Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center. And at first I was just flabbergasted that they would do that. And then I realized that these are all board members and he picked. And so they did that. But now, as it turns out, and I'm hearing a lot about this, is the board can't change the name. They can call it whatever they want, but they can't officially change the name. Congress has to do that. So that made me feel a little bit better. I just, I cannot believe it. I cannot believe it.