I have been a ham since 1972. I have a wide variety of radio interests including home brewing, QRP, and repeater building. My current station is a Flex 6400, an Elecraft K3, and a modest 6 band vertical (6BTV) and several QRP rigs. My favorite mode is HF CW and can be found on DMR talk group 31075. I am the co-host of the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast. You can listen to over 100 episodes of our show on any podcast player or directly from our web site at [https://www.hamradioworkbench.com](https://www.hamradioworkbench.com/) I was honored to be interviewed by Eric 4Z1UG on his QSO Today podcast. You can here my story here 

Volunteer Examiner Canada/USA. Electronics Hobbyist. Ham Radio Workbench Podcast layabout. [www.ve6lk.com](www.ve6lk.com)

Rod is passionate about various aspects of the Amateur Radio hobby, including Digital, QRP, DSTAR and Raspberry Pi experimentation. Annual Dayton Pilgrim. He stands in the rain for deserving ARES events. He is a terrible contester. He promises he will _someday_ learn The Code. Professionally, Rod is a Product Manager leading a team of software developers in an Agile framework. He builds cool, useful products. He once designed / built Windows based PCs, clustered servers and networking products for HP in Cupertino. He now uses Macs exclusively.

Mark Smith, aka Smitty, has been a ham since high school, getting his Technician license in 1992. He's given presentations at DEF CON, BayCon, QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo, and several ham clubs. He likes building radios more than using them. He recently (January 2022) started Halibut Electronics, a company building Amateur Radio and Audiophile electronics products and kits.

Mike was licensed in 1974 and has always loved technology.  His first ‘real’ job with IBM working on an actual Tube computer that had 64,000 tubes in NORAD that was 600ft underground at the height of the cold war. Mike started HF contesting in the early ’90s and loved it.  However, that didn’t stop him from also learning more about RF, especially FM and repeaters. He has always loved ham radio and all the parts of Ham radio.  HF, FM, Satellite, and lately how to build a better remote HF station.  Over the past 15 years, he has worked continuously to improve his HF remote station.   Mike saw the writing on the wall, aka, the next great thing, when the world moved to Software Defined Radio and how that would shape the future. Over the past 5+ years, he has been involved with FlexRadio Systems in a variety of roles including inside sales, customer education, and marketing, and loving it and all the amazing people at the company.

I've been an amateur radio operator since 1997. I'm a big fan of low-power amateur radio (QRP) and performing park and summit portable activations any opportunity I have. I'm also a passionate shortwave radio listener and radio archivist. I am also licensed in the UK (M0CYI) and Canada (VY2SW).

After growing up on a farm in upstate South Carolina, Troy earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson, and then moved to Atlanta in the early 90’s. Spending 30 years in Consulting, Start-ups, and Fortune 500 companies from a work perspective, a love of sailing led Troy to an interest in long distance “off grid” communications. Troy acquired his Tech and General in 2018, and his Extra in early 2019. Troy is trying to explore many of the aspects of Amateur Radio including DX, Contesting, Emergency Management, field operating, and most importantly, building stuff. He has a LOT of questions, and is always trying to learn new things from the great variety of Elmers in the hobby, both local and on line. Troy married way above his pay grade, and he and his wife Ashley have two boys, and live in Kennesaw, Georgia, outside of Atlanta.  Troy is a member of the Silver Comet Amateur Radio Society in Dallas, GA, the ARRL, and QRP ARCI. Despite his better judgement, Troy joins us on the Ham Radio Workbench to send questions our way at this QSO Today Ham Expo.