[bars] BARS September 2025 Newsletter & Monthly Meeting Announcement

[Juan Jiménez]

I think the hobby is overdue for retiring the ancient rags. Attracting
younger members and all that? 🤪🤪🤪

On Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 16:39 Christopher Lennon <kwaj.speedo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "I spent hours playing two games it created, and it was a heck of a lot
> more interesting than CW'ing to people about their trip to the barn."
>
> Well duh.  The real excitement topics of any rag chew are the classics:
>
> What I had for breakfast.
>
> Getting a haircut.
>
> Chris
> W2BPL
>
> Sent from my phone.
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 11:40 AM Juan Jiménez via bars <bars at w1hh.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Interesting piece about machine learning (the correct name for the "AI"
>> marketing concept). My take on how ML can influence activities like our own
>> is in automation of pattern recognition and reaction to what we hear and
>> observe on our radios.
>>
>> For example, has anyone thought about programming a CW interface between
>> a HAM radio and ChatGPT? If a computer can decode CW, it should also work
>> as a go-between between that and many other similar resources on the
>> internet. One of the things ChatGPT can do is create a text-based game in
>> the spirit of the Infocom series (think Zork, Suspended or Hitchiker's
>> Guide to the Galaxy). Those games have interfaces to which you talk just as
>> you would talk to a human. It can create an entire universe of a game for
>> you, but one of the things it does not do well is create horror themes or
>> stories. I tried asking it for a game based on Ridley Scott's "Alien" movie
>> but ChatGPT seemed unable to create monsters. I spent hours playing two
>> games it created, and it was a heck of a lot more interesting than CW'ing
>> to people about their trip to the barn. :)
>>
>> ML can also help with all those repetitive activities in HAM radio that
>> can be automated, but require pattern matching to make decisions, such as
>> tuning of an antenna.
>>
>> The concept of a personal Elmer who is available 24x7 and never tires of
>> answering your questions is a very real one in ChatGPT.
>>
>> I use ChatGPT at work for one purpose, helping me gather and summarize
>> information to suggest answers to complex technical questions. It is
>> exactly the same thing I would do manually with Google searches, but it can
>> search many more sources simultaneously at blazing speeds, much faster than
>> my fat Puerto Rican redneck fingers can type. Just remember: "ChatGPT can
>> make mistakes." Says so at the bottom of every initial screen.
>>
>> 73,
>> K1CPR
>> Juan
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM David Marcucci via bars <bars at w1hh.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> We've got another great newsletter ready for your reading pleasure.
>>> Thanks, as always, to our newsletter editor, Marla, for putting this
>>> together every month. Also, thanks to those of you who contributed
>>> articles. Without articles, there is no newsletter. If you have something
>>> you'd like to submit for a future newsletter, be sure to send it to Marla
>>> at wa1gsf at comcast.net. Here's the link for this
>>> month's newsletter posting:
>>> https://www.w1hh.org/september-2025-billerica-amateur-radio-society-newsletter/
>>>
>>> *REMEMBER! MONTHLY MEETINGS ARE BACK TO HYBRID STARTING IN SEPTEMBER.*
>>>
>>> This Wednesday, 9/3, is our monthly membership meeting. Note that the
>>> meetings are now hybrid and will take place at the Chelmsford Bible Church
>>> at 128 Gorham Street
>>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/128+Gorham+Street?entry=gmail&source=g>
>>> in Chelmsford AND via Zoom at 7 pm EST. You should have already received
>>> the Zoom meeting info from Bruce via this email list.
>>>
>>> I would like to announce that our Guest Speaker for the September 3,
>>> 2025, club meeting will be Ward Silver, N0AX, who will give a talk on End
>>> Fed Half Wave antennas and other relevant antenna topics. Ward has written
>>> several antenna books for the ARRL, so this presentation should provide
>>> valuable insight into antenna building and construction. You won’t want to
>>> miss this presentation!
>>>
>>> See
>>> https://www.w1hh.org/september-3-2025-bars-meeting-ward-silver-n0ax-end-fed-half-wave-and-other-antenna-topics/ for
>>> more information.
>>>
>>> Be sure to check out this month's newsletter on w1hh.org, to watch BARS
>>> TV, and to get more info on our upcoming meetings and events.
>>>
>>> As a reminder, BARS dues run from January 1 through December 31. Dues
>>> are just $15 for the year and help pay for the club's Zoom account, the
>>> website, Field Day activities, etc. If you have not renewed, you can do so
>>> online at https://www.w1hh.org/join-or-renew/. If you're not sure if
>>> you are current or not, email our club treasurer, Bruce Anderson, at
>>> w1lus at hotmail.com.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Dave
>>> KC1TLF
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