{"podcast":{"title":"Live Free and Ham Podcast","slug":"live-free-and-ham-podcast-6414771","podcast_index_feed_id":6414771,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/live-free-and-ham/feed.xml","website_url":"https://livefreeandham.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/live-free-and-ham/20251030_121013_425bee1c83cff9c7d4f0cb7a8dfe511c.png","author":"Live Free and Ham Pod","episode_count":140,"summary":"Welcome to Live Free and Ham Podcast; we are your bi-weekly podcast covering all things ham radio in New Hampshire, New England, and beyond. Be sure to check out our website at livefreeandham.com and our social pages on Instagram and Facebook . If you want to support the show, you can buy us a coffee or become a Patreon supporter. ************************************ Support the show: Buy Us a Beer: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lfh podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LiveFreeandHam Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093543540309 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livefreeandham/ Leave the hosts a voicemail: Call and leave us a voicemail with comments or questions, or tell us how to do our jobs! 978.233.1142 Affiliate: Live Free and Ham - 10% off all LFH Swag CODE: LFH10. Reliance Antennas - 10% off and free shipping at https://www.relianceantennas.com/ CODE: LIVEFREEANDHAM Halibut Electronics - 10% discount on all purchases https://electronics.halibut.com/ of $25 or more, limited to three uses per listener. CODE: LIVEFREEANDHAM YouTube Channel: Live Free and Ham - @livefreeandham Eric (N1JUR) - @N1JUR Paul (N1OG) - @NovemberOneOscarGrouch Todd (W1S…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T12:19:19.589060+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/live-free-and-ham-podcast-6414771"},"episode":{"title":"When Ham Radio, Real Life, and Podcast Chaos Collide","slug":"when-ham-radio-real-life-and-podcast-chaos-collide","published_at":"2026-05-11T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/live-free-and-ham-podcast-6414771/when-ham-radio-real-life-and-podcast-chaos-collide","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/live-free-and-ham-podcast-6414771","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/live-free-and-ham/2808965","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/353275/2808965/live-free-and-ham/2026_05_09_17_00_26_76a4da42-a1df-477f-a6d7-dc203c9d12d1.mp3","summary":"Live Free and Ham is changing things up… but don’t panic, nobody threw the radio in the dumpster. Yet. In this episode, Eric N1JUR, Paul N1OG, and Todd W1STJ sit down for a real update on the future of the show. Todd shares why he’ll be taking a bit of a pause from regular episodes while life, work, family, baseball, and everything else pile up like a badly packed go-box. The crew also talks about shifting Live Free and Ham from a weekly schedule to every other week for the summer so the show stays fun, sustainable, and actually worth listening to. Because let’s be honest: forcing content just to keep a schedule is how you end up with bad audio, dead batteries, three confused hams, and a podcast episode that becomes a hostage situation. We also dig into the latest community updates, including Winlink messages, listener voicemails, the 5-2 Simplex Challenge, POTA Academy, NEAR-Fest chaos, technician license questions, ham radio wins, and the usual amount of technology fighting back. This one is part announcement, part community check-in, part therapy session, and part reminder that ham radio is supposed to be fun. If you’ve been following Live Free and Ham for a while, this is an episode you’ll want to catch. The show is evolving, the community is still going strong, and yes… the wheels are still mostly attached. Join the conversation, leave us a voicemail, hop into the Discord, and let us know what you want to hear in future episodes. ************************************ Support the show: Buy Us a Beer: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lfhpodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LiveFreeandHamPodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093543540309 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livefreeandham/ ************* Feedback and Questions! You can always lea…","meta_description":"Live Free and Ham is changing things up… but don’t panic, nobody threw the radio in the dumpster. Yet. In this episode, Eric N1JUR, Paul N1OG, and Todd W1…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6225,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/live-free-and-ham-podcast-6414771/episodes/when-ham-radio-real-life-and-podcast-chaos-collide/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/live-free-and-ham-podcast-6414771/when-ham-radio-real-life-and-podcast-chaos-collide.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}