Severe weather has a way of revealing who's actually ready to step up — and in North Georgia this week, that turned out to be a teenager.

As residents across the region fought to stay safe amid severe thunderstorms and flash flooding, 17-year-old Benji Martin, from DeKalb County, woke up before dawn on Thursday 5th November, following torrential overnight downpours that tore through Georgia's Fannin and Gilmer counties, causing extreme flooding, according to NBC affiliate WXIA-TV.

Some radio stations end quietly. WEWN's ending carries a bit more weight than most — not least because of how the station began.

EWTN Global Catholic Network's shortwave radio station WEWN shut down operations on 31st October, after 34 years on the air. Earlier this year, friars from the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word paid their annual visit to the WEWN transmitter site atop Vandiver Mountain, on 13th August, continuing a tradition of blessing the facility alongside EWTN's warehouse and catalogue buildings.

Few publications in this hobby carry the kind of pedigree the ARRL Handbook does, and the latest edition keeps that tradition going strong.

First published back in 1926, The ARRL Handbook has helped generations of radio amateurs turn curiosity into knowledge, ideas into circuits, and experiments into genuine discoveries. Over the past century, it's evolved right alongside radio technology itself, reflecting each new wave of development while continuing to inspire hands-on learning and experimentation.