In this episode we catch up with our good friend Bill Meara, N2CQR, the host of the SolderSmoke podcast. SolderSmoke is a haven for those of us interested in home brewing our own radio equipoment. Bill shares his experiences both at the workbench and also operating around the world.

SolderSmoke was one of the inspirations behind the HRWB Podcast and we appreciate all that Bill and his team have done to bring great content to the ham radio community for the last 20 years.

In this episode we catch up with our good friend and show regular Thomas Witherspoon, K4SWL, to find out how things are going in the disaster recovery from hurricane Helene. We are also joined by our good frend Josh Higgins, K7OSH, from the Hoodview ARC and discuss what we should do, as amateur radio operators, to prepare for disasters.

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.