In this episode, our resident expert on writing ham radio gear reviews, Thomas, K4SWL, walks us through the process of writing a good ham radio review. How can you tell a good review from a bad one and tips for how you can write good content.

Vince gives us some great tips when it comes to buying used gear. How do you find it, evaluate it and figure out a fair price.

In this episode we meet Len Koppl, KD0RC, the designer of the Teensy Maestro remote control head for a Flex radio. Len is a professional software developer and project manager and brings many decades of technical experience and ham radio hands-on to his projects.

In tis episode we learn about multiple projects including the Teensy Maestro, an open source hardware remote control head designed to control a Flex radio. Based on the Arduino Teensy microcontroller, we learn about Len's journey of development and some of the interesting technical challenges he faced in this project.

In this episode we have an extended conversation with Kirk, NT0Z and Paul WD9GCO.

Kirk is the Amateur Radio columnist for The Spectrum Monitor; former columnist for Monitoring Times and Popular Communications; Author of Stealth Amateur Radio (www.stealthamateur.com) and former QST Assistant Managing Editor.

Paul is a news anchor for Amateur Radio Newsline and the professional announcer for the Ham Radio Workbench podcast.

Kirk and Paul have some great stories and general ham radio wisdom to share with our listeners. It's so much fun to spend time with them that this turned into the longest episode we have recorded, and that's saying something !