Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Feb 03 2023 02:13:11

WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, be listening for Willy, ON4AVT operating as 
6W7/ON4AVT from Warang, Senegal from the 6th of February to the 31st of 
March. He is expected to be on 80 through 10 metres using mainly FT8 with 
some SSB and CW. He will also be making contacts via the QO-100 
satellite. QSL via Club Log's OQRS or his home call.

Listen for the call sign JD1YCC from Chichijima, Japan, IOTA number 
AS-031. A group of Japanese operators will be active there from the 7th 
to the 13th of February. They will operate EME on 2m, 70cm and 23cm. QSL 
via LoTW, or direct to JH3AZC.

Listen for Gene, W8NET, using the call sign N8V from St. Croix, US Virgin 
Islands, IOTA number NA-106, from the 6th to the 10th of February. Gene 
will be using SSB and FT8 on 80, 40, 20, 17, and 10 metres. He will also 
be activating three Parks on the Air locations. QSL via LoTW, Club Log's 
OQRS, eQSL, or direct to W8NET.

Peter, G4HSO is active holiday style as S79/G4HSO from the Seychelles 
until the 21st of February, concentrating on CW and VarAC. QSL via LoTW, 
no paper QSLs.

(425 DX BULLETIN)

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KICKER: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BUT REAL RAGCHEW

PAUL/ANCHOR: For our final story, we take a look at ChatGPT, the 
intensely popular chatbot launched late last year by Open AI. It has 
quite literally become the talk of more than quite a few towns, if not 
the world. Now, it seems, it is also the talk of amateur radio. Ralph 
Squillace, KK6ITB, explains.

RALPH: An enterprising ham in Manitoba, Canada, has found a way to use a 
voice recognition engine and a text-to-speech engine to give ChatGPT its 
own voice -- via a transmission that occurs over D-STAR.

William Franzin, VE4VR, has been a ham since the 1990s, long before the 
age of today's modern digital modes, but he has almost always tinkered 
with voice repeater controllers. He told Newsline that those early 
projects really didn't take off for him. It was only after Amazon 
released its Alexa voice assistant that the project gained real traction. 
Five years ago he successfully integrated voice-assistant products with 
popular ham radio platforms. His recent addition of ChatGPT simply meant 
including it as one more platform.

An article on the Hackaday website describes the process: A DSTAR digital 
voice transmission is received and transcoded to regular digital audio. A 
voice recognition engine delivers the question for ChatGPT's AI. The AI’s 
output then enters a text-to-speech engine which delivers the question's 
reply over D-STAR. William has registered the VE4AVS callsign just for 
these applications. He stressed that all of this is still in the 
experimental phase.

However, he posed one question that might prove too tough even for 
ChatGPT itself to tackle: Could the AI answer enough questions to qualify 
for a license and an upgrade on its own?

We're listening for that answer.

This is Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB.

(WILLIAM FRANZIN, VE4VR, HACKADAY)

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With thanks to Amateur Radio Weekly; Amateur Radio Digital 
Communications; the ARRL; Austin Chronicle; CQ magazine; David Behar 
K7DB; Eddie Misiewicz,  KB3YRU; FCC; 425 DX News; Hackaday; John VE1CWJ; 
the Quarter Century Wireless Association; Radio World; shortwaveradio.de; 
Steve Wright, EI5DD; William Franzin, VE4VR; Wireless Institute of 
Australia; WPSD Local 6;  and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur 
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our news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso, Indiana,
saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening. 

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