Issue 18 of Contact, the SKAO magazine, has just been published. In addition to progress reports on construction activities for SKA_Low and SKA-Mid, this issue considers the impact that SKA Pathfinder telescopes have had, examining ASKAP (in Australia), MeerKAT (South Africa), LOFAR (the Netherlands and across Europe), GMRT (India), e-Merlin (the UK), and the 21CM array (China). The SKA Science Meeting in Görlitz is reviewed, the next SKAO Director-General, Jessica Dempsey introduced, and new SKAO Chief Scientist (and former ATNF Bolton Fellow) Naomi McClure-Griffiths is interviewed.