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Speaker 1: the rig Expert offices in Ukraine, the administrative offices were
Speaker 1: bombed by a Russian attack. Because that war over there
Speaker 1: is still ongoing, and the offices were destroyed. For the
Speaker 1: most part, thankfully no one was hurt. But I wanted
Speaker 1: to make a really short video to talk about this
Speaker 1: real quick. I found this on the Twitter on their
Speaker 1: X page X. You call it X, I call it Twitter.
Speaker 1: I still call it twitter. I just do. That's just
Speaker 1: what I call it. I call it Twitter. This is
Speaker 1: from the X account at rig Expert. I will link
Speaker 1: this in the description below. Follow back I thought I
Speaker 1: did follow them? Want to do no? Okay, came across
Speaker 1: my feed. Whether I follow them or not, they follow me.
Speaker 1: Today our administrative office was destroyed by Russian ballistic missile.
Speaker 1: The good news, our entire team is safe, So that's
Speaker 1: really good right there. Despite the challenges, we remain committed
Speaker 1: to delivering our products and minimizing any delays. And there
Speaker 1: is a picture right there, that's a devastating picture right
Speaker 1: there about what those administrative offices look like. It looks
Speaker 1: like there's a bunch of computer monitors and keyboards hanging
Speaker 1: from the ceiling. Ouch. Look at that. So a lot
Speaker 1: of really good responses here. You're welcome to restart your
Speaker 1: company in Portugal. That would be fun. Restarting in another
Speaker 1: country would be fun. Okay, thank god you're all okay,
Speaker 1: terrible news. Glad to hear your team is okay. Amsat replied,
Speaker 1: sorry to hear this. Please rebuild Slava Ukraine. Slava UKRAINI
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, but yeah, long live Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Probably terrible. Glad to hear all staff are well. A
Speaker 1: lot of good reports and replies to this Twitter post.
Speaker 1: And you guys might remember I had rig expert on
Speaker 1: the channel. This video was from two years ago. Actually,
Speaker 1: several of them joined my zoom channel. We did it
Speaker 1: a This was shortly after the it wasn't too long.
Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly how long it was. It wasn't
Speaker 1: too long after the war in between Ukraine and Russia started,
Speaker 1: the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, I should call it
Speaker 1: the invasion of Ukukraine by Russian troops and Russian forces.
Speaker 1: And they wanted to talk about kind of the state
Speaker 1: of things, how they were and that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: And at the time they were all safe and all fine,
Speaker 1: and their factory was still going. But that was two
Speaker 1: years ago. So very grateful to these guys for allowing
Speaker 1: me to interview them back then. I have sent them
Speaker 1: an email. I sent them an email last night. I
Speaker 1: sent them another email this morning. I'm saying, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: any information you can share would be appreciated. I can
Speaker 1: share it with my audience and share it with you guys.
Speaker 1: So hopefully I'll have an update to this very short
Speaker 1: video coming up real soon. In the discrete ription of
Speaker 1: this video, down here there are iban that's what they
Speaker 1: called it. They called it. If you go down here,
Speaker 1: you say donation accounts, I ban iba in for US
Speaker 1: dollars and for European dollars. Iban accounts right there, please
Speaker 1: for the purpose of payment indicate donations for rig Expert.
Speaker 1: This right there in the description of that video. I'll
Speaker 1: link that video in this video you're watching right now. However,
Speaker 1: I don't know if those accounts are still active. That's
Speaker 1: one of the questions I was going to ask them
Speaker 1: when I reached out to them. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what an IBAN account is. I'm not real sure what
Speaker 1: that is, but we talked about it two years ago,
Speaker 1: and I just can't I just can't seem to recall.
Speaker 1: I can tell you right now now this is a
Speaker 1: little bit might seem a little self serving, but if
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Speaker 1: post before for this one, if we go back here,
Speaker 1: is about their Phobos SDR receiver. This right here, PHOBOSSDR software,
Speaker 1: recent PHOBOSSDR firmware and software upstates right here. I actually
Speaker 1: have that product. I have that product. They send it
Speaker 1: to me. I did a video about it. It's been edited,
Speaker 1: it will be uploaded. I'm gonna upload that today, actually
Speaker 1: probably post that next week, so you guys can check
Speaker 1: that out. Really cool SDR scanning software for the purposes
Speaker 1: of the purposes of shortwave listening and whatnot. But nevertheless,
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Speaker 1: they're a business. That's a good way to support their
Speaker 1: business is by purchasing their more updates to come soon.
Speaker 1: Hopefully after I talk to these guys, if I can
Speaker 1: get them back on the channel, I will certainly do that.
Speaker 1: So everyone keep rig expert in your thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 1: If you have a means to communicate with them, reach
Speaker 1: out to them. I will put the link to the
Speaker 1: Twitter post in the description blow you can go respond
Speaker 1: to that if you want to. And just thankfully, everybody's okay,
Speaker 1: so we're going to see how this plays out. Thanks
Speaker 1: for watching today, Guys, comment in this video and let
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