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<v Speaker 1>World Radio League is my current preferred logging software, although

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<v Speaker 1>Sebastian keeps trying to get me tried to Polo. I

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<v Speaker 1>know there's a lot of them, so I really like

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<v Speaker 1>this one because it's so easy to saint between your phone,

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<v Speaker 1>your tablet, your computer, multiple computers, multiple platforms and operating systems.

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<v Speaker 2>So James is going to tell us about updates today.

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<v Speaker 2>So what are you guys working on right now?

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, awesome, Well, you can see the platform over here,

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<v Speaker 3>so you guys are probably mostly familiar with the basic

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<v Speaker 3>interface here at World Radio League, and so we've we

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<v Speaker 3>have new releases almost every single week.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'm just going to go over with you guys

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<v Speaker 2>some of the latest stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, first, this is not super new, but I think

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<v Speaker 3>one of the coolest things that I'll just show really

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<v Speaker 3>quickly is that we do have a band conditions widget

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<v Speaker 3>we've added on our mobile app.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, if you.

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<v Speaker 3>Download the mobile app and you just hold down the icon,

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<v Speaker 3>it'll expand out and you can get a real time

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<v Speaker 3>band conditions update widget on your mobile app.

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<v Speaker 2>I've got to put that on. Super cool. Okay, as

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<v Speaker 2>you can see right now, the bands are trash. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>so I'm giving you a real demo, but it's super cool.

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<v Speaker 3>And as Jason mentioned, one of the really nice things

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<v Speaker 3>about World Radio League is everything sinks from your phone

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<v Speaker 3>to the web app, so you can go online offline

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<v Speaker 3>on your mobile app, and then when you get back

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<v Speaker 3>to your computer at World Radio League dot Com, everything's

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<v Speaker 3>gonna you know, sync. So just to give you a

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<v Speaker 3>quick demo of that, I can come into my mobile

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<v Speaker 3>app here.

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<v Speaker 2>And I can select a park.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe I want to activate US nine four four six,

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<v Speaker 3>which is close to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Here, I click create logbook. Now I'm in and logging.

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<v Speaker 3>Now I'm gonna go ahead and I'm just gonna drop

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<v Speaker 3>a contact into my log I'll look up Professor Jim

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<v Speaker 3>and for a BFR, I'll hit enter.

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<v Speaker 2>Now I've logged in.

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<v Speaker 3>Now what you'll notice is, yeah, so as you can see,

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<v Speaker 3>I just logged on my phone, it's already on my

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<v Speaker 3>computer here, so everything sinks across devices.

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<v Speaker 2>I can from from here.

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<v Speaker 3>Also you can auto spot yourself over to pod Uh

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<v Speaker 3>you've got your park to park, and then everything is

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<v Speaker 3>super easy to export over to the Poda site as well.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's really a purpose built general logger. Pode a logger.

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<v Speaker 3>But you know, we want to kind of focus on

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<v Speaker 3>some of the things that are new that are coming

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<v Speaker 3>out with a log or two, so I can give

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<v Speaker 3>you a rundown of a lot of those things, which

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<v Speaker 3>if you come into the contest page, that's where you're

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<v Speaker 3>going to start to see a lot of uh new

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<v Speaker 3>action here within World Radio League. Okay, So traditionally, if

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<v Speaker 3>you're you know, using a law a logbook for contesting,

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<v Speaker 3>you had to uh go into the logger maybe download

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<v Speaker 3>a specific uh you know plug in for that contest,

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<v Speaker 3>or you had to configure your log book with a

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<v Speaker 3>template for that contest. With World Radio League, we've made

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<v Speaker 3>it really easy to participate in contest because you've got

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<v Speaker 3>basically your entire contest calendar. So I can see, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>cq Worldwide WPX coming up, I can see all the

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<v Speaker 3>QSO parties or field Day of course, this is probably

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<v Speaker 3>one of the most popular. Yeah, so to join field

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<v Speaker 3>Day with World Radio League, all you do as you

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<v Speaker 3>click in, you click and roll into the contest and

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<v Speaker 3>then it generates you a log book that has the

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<v Speaker 3>correct template in the exchange for each contest. So this

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<v Speaker 3>has your class and your section in the case of

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<v Speaker 3>field day. But I mean you could even add because

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<v Speaker 3>we have this quick settings, you could even add a

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<v Speaker 3>PODA on top of this, so you could do a

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<v Speaker 3>contest and a PODA at the same time if you

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<v Speaker 3>wanted to, and it'll continue. You know, as you're logging,

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<v Speaker 3>it generates you your map, you have your spotting built in,

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<v Speaker 3>all those awesome things that you want to see as

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<v Speaker 3>you're going as well. So I know for a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of us, like you'll, you'll pop on, you know, you're

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<v Speaker 3>doing a PODA and you hear some contest going on,

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<v Speaker 3>You're like.

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<v Speaker 2>What is this right now?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it kind of makes it easier to note, number one,

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<v Speaker 3>what contests are coming in, or even if you're just

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<v Speaker 3>a casual contester, pop in and grab a couple a

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<v Speaker 3>couple of qusos.

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<v Speaker 1>So what if what if you're operating as a club

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<v Speaker 1>and you want three or four or five guys all

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<v Speaker 1>log in to World Radio League to log it as

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<v Speaker 1>the same call sign.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah as and you can one hundred percent do that

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<v Speaker 2>with World Radio League.

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<v Speaker 3>So you just create a club account within World Radio

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<v Speaker 3>League and then use the same logbook, and since it's

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<v Speaker 3>all cloud based, all your contacts will go into the

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<v Speaker 3>same logbook, and that also helps you with the duplicates, right,

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<v Speaker 3>and then if somebody else in your club is logging

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<v Speaker 3>the same contact, you don't end up doing it.

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<v Speaker 2>So, okay, I'll give you a good example.

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<v Speaker 3>Of that is we did a really big we did

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<v Speaker 3>a really big event for a winner field day. Oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>and so I can pull up the past results here.

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<v Speaker 3>So we had you know, almost one thousand people, nine

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<v Speaker 3>hundred and forty one people, seventeen thousand contacts logged. And

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<v Speaker 3>if you go into the leaderboard, a lot of the

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<v Speaker 3>people are the clubs, right, the Miami County Amateur Radio Club.

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<v Speaker 2>They actually came by here yesterday and.

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<v Speaker 3>They were just talking about how much fun they're group

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<v Speaker 3>of young kids actually that were running that station. And

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<v Speaker 3>you can see the leaderboard, and when you see somebody

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<v Speaker 3>in the leaderboard, it's I mean, this is complete real

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<v Speaker 3>time contesting. So you know, traditionally in contest, you go

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<v Speaker 3>in and you log your contacts, you download your eight

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<v Speaker 3>if you submit it, you know, maybe you go to

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<v Speaker 3>thirty eight thirty and you you know, you kind of

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<v Speaker 3>see the rumors of the contest score and it gets

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<v Speaker 3>adjudicated and all that.

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<v Speaker 2>But within world Radio League everything.

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<v Speaker 3>Since we're really a cloud native platform, everything's happening in

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<v Speaker 3>real time. Every contact that gets logged is going straight

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<v Speaker 3>onto the leaderboard and you can see the stats of

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<v Speaker 3>other operators as well, so that's big. Integrations are also

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<v Speaker 3>fairly new. We got cat control, now we've got wsjt

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<v Speaker 3>X integration. And since this is Jason, just to give

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<v Speaker 3>you guys a little bit more info, QRZ and LTW

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<v Speaker 3>integrations are top of what you're going to see next

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<v Speaker 3>on the integrations we are Those are going to be

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<v Speaker 3>today you can of course export and import into those,

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<v Speaker 3>but with the next release at QRZ and LTW integrations

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<v Speaker 3>are just going to be running in the background, so

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<v Speaker 3>you don't have to do anything.

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<v Speaker 2>To upload to those services.

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<v Speaker 3>One other thing I think I've would love to tell

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<v Speaker 3>your followers, Jason, this is about WRTC twenty twenty six.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh right, yeah, So, I mean this is like the

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<v Speaker 3>Olympic Games of ham Radio that's happening next year and

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<v Speaker 3>you're going to have fifty teams, you know, like about

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<v Speaker 3>one hundred operators from all over the world competing for

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<v Speaker 3>twenty four hours to basically be the top ham radio

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<v Speaker 3>contest in the world, and after a big evaluation process,

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<v Speaker 3>the wrt team selected World Radio League as the official

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<v Speaker 3>technology partner. They saw what we were doing with the

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<v Speaker 3>live contesting so far and they wanted us to bring

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<v Speaker 3>that type of interface to the World Radio Team Championship

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<v Speaker 3>in twenty twenty six.

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<v Speaker 2>So we are going to building.

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<v Speaker 3>A completely custom dashboard and contesting experience. So and it's

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<v Speaker 3>not just for those you know, fifty teams that are contesting.

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<v Speaker 3>When people are at home, there's going to be a

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<v Speaker 3>face a you know, user facing side where you can say, hey,

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<v Speaker 3>I want to try to work all the WRTC stations.

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<v Speaker 3>I want to see how I'm doing against other people.

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<v Speaker 3>So we're still a year out from that, but you're

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<v Speaker 3>going to see a lot more about WRTC twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 3>six as we start to get closer.

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<v Speaker 1>Good, what's the status of the desktop app?

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<v Speaker 3>The desktop app is in testing. We've got it, We've

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<v Speaker 3>got it working internally, but we have to just battle

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<v Speaker 3>test the heck out of that thing. Taking a little

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<v Speaker 3>bit longer than we thought I would still, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>if I had to give it, if I had to

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<v Speaker 3>put an estimate and on it, I'd say a month out.

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<v Speaker 3>But if the desktop app isn't out in two months,

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<v Speaker 3>I would be shocked. Okay, so I would you know,

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<v Speaker 3>best guest a month longest guest two months okay, and yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>desktop app coming, so that at the you know, right now,

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<v Speaker 3>you've got your web app you can log into, You've

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<v Speaker 3>got iOS, Android, MacBooks, that's the one platform that it

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<v Speaker 3>doesn't run on natively yet.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, okay. Well, the desktop app will also.

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<v Speaker 3>Be offline, offline capable from day one, yes, right from

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<v Speaker 3>day one.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, I'll have offline call signed.

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<v Speaker 1>Database too, right exactly because a lot of people, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>they go out to PDA or even Soda and there's

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<v Speaker 1>no there's no internet signal out there. So a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of people won't use a cloud based service because of that,

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<v Speaker 1>and I understand that. So it'll be uh, it'll be

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<v Speaker 1>nice to see when that happens.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, man, I hope you have a good show.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for your time. Yeah, thank you, Jason Ye