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In preliminary work towards No and Lr mass measurements (NP1306-LINAC07) we made precision mass measurements of $^{205,206}$Fr and $^{201}$At and rough mass measurements of $^{201}$Bi, $^{201, 205}$Po, $^{205, 206}$At and $^{205, 206}$Rn \cite{Schury_2015}. These measurements were achieved with only 6 hours of machine time, during which the system efficiency was $\approx$0.05\%. We found deviations from literature values in this data set. The region has very few directly measured mass values, and where masses are directly measured they tend to have been done at ESR \cite{Litvinov_2008} and could benefit from a cross-check by an alternate method.  The large number isomeric states known to exist in this region provide us with a special means to investigate the nuclear structure in this region. Since directly produced It is generally understood that direct production (e.g. by fragmentation or complete fusion) of  nuclei can be na\;{i}vely assumed understood, to zeroth-order,  to populate spin  states with a probability proportional to $I(I+1)$. Historically, studies of isomeric ratios \cite{Bowry_2013}\cite{de_Jong_1997} have measured  the square decay  of isomeric and ground states to infer the relative populations. While such studies are  the spin, only means to address short-lived ($T_{1/2}\ll$1~ms) isomeric states, they require corrections for detector efficiencies, et cetera.