In this episode, our dear friend Thomas, K4SWL, tells us about the devestation in North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Thomas shares his family's esperience and his advice for emergency preparation.

We had so many interesting topics to talk about regarding emergency prep, workbench style, that we are going to do a follow up episode with our top tips for emergency prep sometime in the coming months.

In this episode we meet Adam Kimmerly, K6ARK, and avid outdoorsman, hiker, and ham radio operator. Adam has achieved Mountain Goat status by earning over 1,000 points in the Summits On The Air program. In addition to his outdoor adventures, Adam, a professional mechanical engineer, has designed some very innovative antennas, CW paddles and other cool ham radio accessories. Adam also has a very good YouTube channel. You can find him by going to "K6ARK Portable Radio" on YouTube. You can find Adam's products on his web site at k6ark.com

In this episode we meet Pat Hensley, W5WTH, a prolific designer and project builder. Pat has made several intersting radio and non-radio related electronic projects and he features them on his blog site WhiskeyTangoHotel.Com

Some of Pat's projects are very useful and some are just plain fun. Many projects are a blend of hardware (Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, etc) and software (c, Python, etc). Pat publishes all of his source code for us all to learn from. If you want to be inspired to build your first project you have come to the right place.