[bars] BARS September 2025 Newsletter & Monthly Meeting Announcement

[Christopher Lennon]

Don't younger people eat breakfast and get haircuts?

Sent from my phone.

On Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 4:01 PM Juan Jiménez <k1cpr at bd5.com> wrote:

> 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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