Ham Radio Workbench Podcast

By: Ham Radio Workbench
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  • Summary

  • This is your bi-weekly deep dive on making, DIY, electronics, and technical topics of interest to the radio amateur. Join your host George KJ6VU and the HRWB team as they discuss current developments in ham radio while introducing listeners to a plethora of topics and skills such as test equipment, 3D Printing, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and more. Ham radio is a hobby of hobbies - George and team introduce hams of all ages to experimenting and learning within ham radio, which can be one of the most rewarding aspects of the hobby. We are proudly sponsored by Autodesk Eagle PCB design tools, Flex Radio and Digikey.
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Episodes
  • HRWB 234 - Teensy Maestro Project with Len KD0RC

    HRWB 234 - Teensy Maestro Project with Len KD0RC
    Apr 22 2025

    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.
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    3 hrs and 1 min
  • HRWB 233 - A Conversation with Kirk Kleinschmidt, NT0Z, and Paul Braun, WD9GCO

    HRWB 233 - A Conversation with Kirk Kleinschmidt, NT0Z, and Paul Braun, WD9GCO
    Apr 8 2025

    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 !
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    3 hrs and 46 mins
  • HRWB 232 - Product Design with Richard VE2DX

    HRWB 232 - Product Design with Richard VE2DX
    Mar 25 2025

    In this episode we meet Richard Desaulniers, VE2DX.

    Richard has been licensed since 1990 and has a background in emergency communications serving at disaster events in Quebec. He enjoys hunting DX, Island Activations and DXPeditions.

    Richard is also an experimenter and founded VE2DX Electronics in 2020. With the founding of the company, he wanted to create inexpensive and simple electronic products to help the Ham Radio Community.

    Among his creations are products like TrueTTL, TrueCIV, and TrueCAT thes were implemented and applied to all VE2DX Electronics Design creation to help eliminate problems with RFI, EMI, Signal Loss and other signal issues, thanks to Heavy Shielding, RFI filtration of Power, Signals and Grounds, Signal processing, and signal automatic leveling.

    Join us in a great conversation with Richard VE2DX, Vince VE6LK and Thomas K4SWL.
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    1 hr and 58 mins
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