In this episode we meet Carlos from Parts Candy. Carlos is an experienced electronics technician and he shares his life-long love of electronics and his technical skills reparing electronic equipment. Seeing a need in the market for high quality test leads, Carlos started his own company, Parts Candy, where he makes high quality test leads at a reasonable price. Join us in our conversation with Carlos as we learn about his electronics journey and his company.

Warning: Grab your wallet ! You are going to want to buy some of Carlos' products.

In this episode we meet Roger Coude, VE2DBE, the author of Radio Mobile. This amazing software package allows the user to create a cross sectional plot of a radio path between two points on Earth. The software includes a terrain database so the path includes obstructions and the curvature of the Earth. This software can be used to determine link paths, repeater coverage, simplex point to point link budgets and more.

Roger has developed this software many years and makes it freely available to ham radio operators. A truly generous gift to the ham radio community.

In this episode we are joined by Paul WD9GCO and Josh K7OSH, part of the HRWB family, and we talk about Hamvention 2025. We met soooo many great people who stopped by the booth to say hello.

In this episode we recap what each of us learned at Hamvention and describe the overall experience. We wrap up the episode with a brief roundtable discussion about our Field Day plans for this year.