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Well, Mike, thank you so much for that report and 73. I, you know, I heard some words here and there, but mostly it sounded like you were standing outside of a window giving a report through a very windy, windy storm. So there was that. I did hear the timbre of your voice just kind of floating there in the thunderstorm, in this windy rainstorm outside of my window. And yes. But in conclusion, I hope that you have a wonderful sleep and kisses to your little kitty. And yeah, hopefully we'll see you at the picnic. 73 and all the numbers, Mike. Thanks for stopping by. We have an iO from Cody, A-T-7-L-R. And then we have an in from Andrew, K-K-7-V-N-I, K-K-7-I-J-Z. Good evening. This is K-K-7-V-N-I. It's the first time checking in on this 19 net. I caught you last night as I was setting up this new radio, which I wanted to talk about. I'm at my truck right now, which is a great night, real clear here in North Seattle. And I have this new AnyTone D578UV. I had a little Dinky P-Tec 25 watt dry-bandering here before, but it was under $8. So you can probably guess what happened to it. So I got this as an upgrade. And on two here, the SWR is fantastic. It's very, very low. But I tested it around the calling frequency. But at 446 megahertz, my SWR is way up at 5. And I was trying to do some troubleshooting. I don't want to stay up all night. But I noticed that I'm in my truck with a Magnamout and a dry-band antenna up top. And I noticed that there is a dent in the DRG-58 because I was lazy and had the wire for the Magnamout go through a passenger door. It's probably not the best idea. But I wonder if I need some more research. I don't know if you know anything, Rebecca, or anybody else on the net. But if a dent in coax probably, in insulation, probably don't do much good. But otherwise, really working pretty well. I was able to transfer. I had an HT from the same brand. I was able to copy and paste a lot of stuff over, which made things real easy. But otherwise, just trying to get this radio set up and doing a little test with you guys. I think when I checked in, I was actually setting a low power, which is why Cody blew me out. So hopefully I'm on full power now. So hopefully I sound a bit better. But anyway, I'm done. This is repeater station kilo, kilo 7, November, Quebec, November. Well, Andrew, you could probably try going back down to low power again. Let me see what you sound like.