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All right, thank you very much, Andrew. Thank you for checking in tonight. And sorry to hear that you're coming down with a cold. You know, I think it was earlier this week, Monday, I think. I thought I was getting a sore throat, or I had. My throat was sore. And so I was telling Megan, I don't know. I hope I'm not getting sick. And then it went away. So I ended up actually not feeling bad after that. So I wonder if maybe it's just something I ate, or who knows? But I hope you get to feeling better there. And it doesn't take you down too bad. Congratulations on the new radio. Those UV-5R Minis are good little radios. I've got a couple of them here. And I would agree. The stock antenna that comes with it is not great. The other thing that I did notice is that when I put a high gain antenna on it, there was a little bit of overload on some signals. So what I did end up going with, I like to put BNC adapters on my radios. And so I put an SMA to BNC adapter on there, and I put a diamond RHF10 antenna. So it's a little stubby dual band. Romeo Hotel Foxtrot 10 is the number. And it seems to work pretty well. It works quite a bit better than the stock antenna. It's not a super high gain antenna, so you don't get any kind of overload on the front end of the radio. And it's kind of flexible, and having the BNC means you can take it off if you need to pretty quickly. So there's my recommendation for an antenna if you want to give that one a try. But yeah. Other than that, I would say I would give you maybe a Charlie Mike four and a half. There was some scratch on there, maybe Charlie Mike four. You were not hitting the receiver with a whole lot of oaths. The voter scope was showing. I didn't see the exact number, but it was maybe a third of the way activated on the receivers there. But you were getting in, nonetheless. and you were clear so you didn't drop out or anything. So perfectly readable. I turned my volume up a little bit to hear you. Anyway, you have followed that new radio and I hope you feel better. Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful rest of your evening. Okay, let's see. We got anyone else who wants to check in to the 9 o'clock net? Come ahead now, call sign and name.