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Speaker A: And I've given you three or four if you count copilot, different versions or different models, chat bots, if you will, that you can use. I highly suggest using Gemini or using ChatGPT because they are the most user friendly. They also happen to be some of the lower cost ones, meaning you get more, more usage without it running out of limits. And everything has a limit to it. So that's just something that we all deal with. I run out of limits. Even on my work account, I run out of limits sometimes. So when you find one that you like, stick with it, learn how it works. Don't use all three of them unless you just like to play around. Take one and learn what it's really good at. I said earlier, ChatGPT is a very good AI chatbot. For general stuff, it's just good generally. Gemini Pro or Gemini is really good. When you use Google stuff, it can create smart, it can create the sheets, it can create notes, it can create your calendar, it can look and tell you your emails. I get a morning email every day from my Gemini account that tells me about the things that I missed. So there's a three minute rule that I'd like to speak about considering that we use three minutes, spend three minutes with it, get on one of them, type in, you know, Google Gemini, it will find a link to it or chatgpt.com and, and, and just start. You don't even have to set up an account to use it. Most of them will let you use it two or three times before it asks you to create an account and just ask it something, play with it. It's an experiment. We're all amateur radio operators and so that's part of our thing is we like to experiment. Right? So that's what this is. It's just a radio play without having to commit. Let me take a break real quick. Okay, so what do you actually type first? Well, talk to it like you would if you were meeting somebody. Some of the prompts that you could use explain to me what amateur radio is and explain it to me. Like I'm trying to tell my neighbor who knows nothing about it, or what should I know about upgrading my license from technician to general? It will tell me that I told you a couple of times how it's teaching me DMR right now. Because where I live at, I don't really have much of a ham radio community and so I don't have that Elmer that I can just walk to. That's what AI can be. It can be your digital Ham radio Elmer Again, the more specific you are, the better the answer is going to give you. If your first answer is close, but it isn't quite right, just tell it, say, hey, this doesn't make any sense to me. It will adjust it and tell you again. If it's too long and you don't want to read all that, tell it, hey, this is just I don't want to read all this. It will make it shorter. If there's a section of it that you're just not comprehending, tell it, hey, this section. And then you can highlight it, copy and paste it back into it, say, I'm not comprehending this. And it will try a different way. But what it doesn't do by default it does not browse the Internet. So very recent news may not be there. Now, there are a few special cases, but for the most part these large language models or LLMs are trained to a certain spot. So we're just starting May. So for an example, they may be trained up to the beginning of April. So anything from April 1st onward, it doesn't defaultly know. You have to instruct it go do a web search to get the most current information. So then it will go do a web search and get you the most recent information. It won't remember the conversation next time unless you set up memory features. So there are a million little things you can do to make it remember what you want it to remember to make it output what you want it to output. The more context you give it, the more specific your question, the better the answer. And I have one segment left in my notes which is managing expectations without killing the enthusiasm. So with that I will come back to that in a minute. I'm going to pause again to see if anybody else has any questions or comments or anything. I'm getting some messages. Some people are using it for noise. A noise project. Om Noise Project. What Chris just put on here. And then Jeanette said a lot of people like how AI can reduce the HF noise. That's a good idea. I'm not into HF radio yet. I'm hoping to do that here in the next few months. But I can tell you, even in the check ins on this net, you know, you get four or five check ins sometimes. Sorry, my feet burn off and I didn't want to have timeout. So, you know, if you have four or five people that stumble on top of each other, you can actually build something that would listen to the noise and it can actually pick out and separate it for you. So, yeah, there's a million things it can do for you. But with that, I am going to pause and I should tell you, I do not mind long pauses. Those long, awkward pauses don't bother me a bit. So if you have any questions or any comments or any, any use cases or anything that you've used AI for, I'd like to hear about it. And now's that time to come and tell me about it. If you'd like to check in or you have a question about anything other than AI, go ahead and come with that too. Let's, let's go ahead and open this up for General Conversation. Page A5, IRQ standing by. Holy smokes. Kb1pz.
Speaker B: This is, this is november 5th, zulu, india, quebec, n5zi, kimoy in houston. I want to make a suggestion. Victor, echo, 5, romeo, juliet, mike. Echo 5, romeo, juliet, mike.
Speaker C: I don't know if I came through
Speaker B: our audio, but this is.
Speaker A: Let me go through these call signs and make sure that we got everybody I think that wanted to be on here. I'm going to start on line 44, Chris. And so Victor Uniform, form 2, Mike, Delta, Alpha. Then I have Kilo, India, 7, Papa, Kilo, Lima, Kilo Charlie, 6, Risky, Oscar, Goff. November 5th, Zulu, India, Quebec, Victor, Echo, 5, Romeo, Juliet, Mike. And then Kilo 5, Oscar, Mike, Goff. So those are the call signs that I've seen. Come down. Down. Did any of them have a comment or question? Come down.
Speaker C: Kilo M4, Victor, Papa, Golf. Kilo M4, Victor, Papa, golf, Tide, Row.
Speaker B: Good evening.
Speaker C: No traffic, you shall say.
Speaker B: Listen, see if I learn anything. Victor, echo, five, romeo, juliet, mike. I have a comment.
Speaker C: I believe.
Speaker A: Yeah, we got you, Douglas.
Speaker B: Thank you.
Speaker A: I'm sorry, I think I double with somebody. I believe line 47 has a comment. All right, all right, I'm gonna stop there. There's a lot, a lot coming through here. Let's start off with Victor, Echo, five, Romeo, Juliet, Mike. I know that he had a question or comment. Come now.
Speaker B: Yeah, I think your question was with regards with AI and how do you use it? Is that correct?
Speaker A: Yeah, you can ask about that or you can ask about anything else you would like to ask about.
Speaker B: Yeah, Roger. Yeah, there's, there's actually a great YouTube I don't have off the top of my head here now, the address.
Speaker C: But
Speaker B: if a person emails it to me, I can probably send it off to them about how to typically use email AI in amateur radio.
Speaker A: So.
Speaker B: But anyways, anybody doing a search there can do that. And also I actually took the advice of that YouTube message and I had a person question me on on HF antennas of what you know, recommendations a person would have in setting up an amshed HF antenna multiband. So I plugged in the details there. I just basically said to it using chat GTP and by golly it sent me nice diagram of different ways of setting up all basically on a couple of pages different picture diagrams and so forth. Different ways of setting up an NFET HF antenna. So something that probably would have taken me maybe a half an hour and doing some research on and put together it created it in basically less than. Less than 30 seconds. I thought that was pretty cool. So I'll be definitely using Chess GTP or GPT I guess more often AI in gathering some information. Of course there's a verification don't take everything as gospel and that sort of thing. So you want to verify, you know your results that you get back from it. But still it's. The information is there and. And it was all put together in less than 30 seconds. So. So that was the main. So I'm going to be from now on in frequent user of AI anyways hopefully that inspires somebody else to use it back to Net and yeah I'd be could check me in there as well. That would be great. That you guys put on here. Back to you.
Speaker C: Okay.
Speaker A: KJ5IRQ coming back. Yeah I mean there's literally no end to what it can can do provided again provided based on what you put into will give you what you need out of it and you need to verify everything again. I don't trust anything from it just because I've been burnt by it too many times. A great example is building a new antenna. I'm getting ready to build a new antenna for two meter stuff and I don't have to do the math. I don't have to sit there and figure out exactly how this thing gets set up. I can take the time and pump it into AI and it can do the hard work for me. Now that also brings up the idea and it is a true idea of humans getting lazy. That is a big fear that people have with AI. It's a big fear I have. I use AI a lot for home for work. My okay. My wife got her a new ball python snake. Don't ask me why. That's my wife. Never been married 23 years. Never even knew she liked snakes until a couple of weeks ago. But we're able to take a crash course in it with using AI, it told us exactly what its needs were, what its enclosure and habitat should be, like, what the humidity level, what the heat should be. It was able to do all of that without me digging through a bunch of websites or a bunch of books or anything like that. It's just, it really is knowledge at your fingertips. Could you imagine, and I like to imagine because I'm a history buff. Could you imagine having this type of information at your fingertips all throughout human history? Every time you learn something, it was put into a database and then you never lose that again because it's at your fingertips. Anybody can learn it. It's just, to me, it's an amazing thing. I do believe we missed the check in. Let me come back here.
Speaker B: Kilo.
Speaker A: Bravo 1 Papa 2 Luciera.
Speaker C: Bob.
Speaker A: I did get you, by the way, and so you are on the list. I do a very poor job of looking at the little blue box with our next girl. I'm very bad about it. So I'm looking back to see if I missed anything.
Speaker B: I don't think so.
Speaker A: So I want to take a moment and I'm going to call him out because, you know, he wanted to be facetious at the beginning of the net. But Ben, my buddy Ben, he's been around me quite a bit for a while.
Speaker C: BE three fbx.
Speaker A: Now, I know for a fact that you have a little bit of experience with. Well, there you go. I knew I would time out at least once. This is the way I roll. I apologize for timing out, but Ben, ve3fbX, you and I have had some conversations. We've talked a little bit about AI. I'm going to give you a moment to come on here and comment or say something. And this is payback, you know, for saying that it was a fad. So KJ Fabioq is calling VE3FBX.
Speaker C: This is VE3FBX.
Speaker A: I was just making the comparison that
Speaker C: I think AI is going to be as much of a fad as TV turned out to be. When TV first came out, there was a lot of naysayers that it would never last, it wouldn't take. And I don't think you can turn your head anywhere without seeing a screen somewhere nowadays. I think AI is here to stay. And like you said earlier, if you don't learn it, you you're going to get left behind. I think it beheed everybody to learn it, get used to it, at least be comfortable with it and around it because it is going to be a tool that everybody can use and use if you learn it, it can empower you a lot. That's it for me, Joshy. The E3FBX back to net control.
Speaker A: All right, Ben, thank you so much, man. I knew you'd have something rise to say. Yeah, it is a learning curve to it.
Speaker C: He's right.
Speaker A: But you get started by just playing with it. Now here's, here's something I've told a million people. Not a million, but I told a lot of people whenever they ask, how do I, you know, how do you get started? What do you do? Okay, so go on Gemini or ChatGPT and have it make images. I like history. You know, I like reading restaurants. In fact, I'm rereading all of the Lonesome Dove series. I'm in Dead Man's Rock right now. The first, the first chronological book and it talks about the area in which at least close enough to the area in which I live. And so there are times when I can see what the author is trying
Speaker C: to describe to me.
Speaker A: So I'll take the excerpt out of that book and I'll put it in a chatgpt and I'll add some stuff to it and have it generate an image. That's how I learned how to prompt, to be honest, is making images. I made a lot of images just learning, hey, I would make a dollar and then I would change my prompt just a little bit to make the dog have blue hair and then change it a little bit more to have a blue haired dog with a white stripe down the middle. You know, that's two, three, four different prompts to get it there. I learned how the function of a prompt and the quality of the prompt interacts with the output. I'm going to take a real quick break, come back. So you can also do that with videos. Gemini has a great video platform. Y' all may have heard of it. It's called Nano. Banana is their Image and then VO3, I believe is their, is their video. So if you like making little videos or something, you can for a different net. Well, the Christmas net, we, we've messed around with it a lot in the Christmas time and made a little hamster that made like a little, a little promo that, that some people could put on YouTube. It was a quick, you know, 30 second or. Well, actually I think it was 18 second long cartoon. Talking about the Christmas Eve net. So we did that all on AI that started off with prompting an image. We wanted to get the character down. So it took a lot of.

Speaker A: Get the character down and then we needed to get the background down and then we needed to combine them so they all work together. And then from that point on we started making it into a video. There's almost no end. If you like making music. There are music centric AI platforms out there. Sunno S U N O is the one that comes to my mind. Leah taught my five year old grandson before he started Pre K this year how to spell his name, how to spell colors, a lot of things. Because he made him into little bitty songs that were catchy. It was pretty cool. Whenever he was going around the house singing O L I V E R as a song and he didn't realize he was learning how to spell his name, but he did. And we've done that with other things. He plays T ball and there's little league T ball. They like to have their own, you know, like to pick out walkout music.
Speaker B: Hang on just a second.
Speaker A: You know, those are just things that we played with. It's just fun. It's just to mess around with. So let's talk about expectations and what you can really expect out of using AI. Checking my notes. Okay. It doesn't replace your human element and ham radio. I'm learning that firsthand. Trying to learn dmr. It's helpful. It can teach you a lot. But it can't replace the guy who you create a bond with and who will say, hey, you know, do it this way because it works for me. It's AI is going to use what textbooks would tell you to use and an actual Elmer would use what really works, if that makes any sense. Let me take a quick break before I run out of time.
Speaker B: Hey man, let me stop you. I have a comment. When I have it here. Come back. Come back to me. Stop everything for just a second, please. Double Bouishee. This is Scott in 4UPC. Maybe dabble with you. We've got a group of really good hams in West Lafayette, Indiana. Or at least that's where the bridge is. And unfortunately they had some DMR message about connecting to some group or something. Guys at the WC9 in, if y' all could change that timing, we would appreciate it so it doesn't interrupt our net. No, you didn't mean to.
Speaker A: So no, no harm done.
Speaker B: And we had somebody was just. Just before I started talking. I didn't catch anything you said, so you might want to handle that. Josh in for upc. Back over to you, Josh.
Speaker A: Kj5irq returning. Thanks a lot, Scott. Yeah, Did I miss somebody who had a comment or a question?
Speaker B: Come on.
Speaker A: Now I will pause.
Speaker C: Come on.
Speaker B: You.
Speaker A: All right?
Speaker D: You two stepped all over each other.
Speaker A: Let's try that again. Give me your call signs and we'll just take them one at a time.
Speaker C: Elo, Echo9, Charlie, Whiskey Zulu on echo link.
Speaker A: All right. All right, Echo link. You come first. Go ahead with your, with your comment or use case. Yeah, I'm, My name is Gentry.
Speaker C: I'm outside of Chicago. I'm a relatively new ham. This is here into my general and a month more into my, into my tech. But I'm a software guy, IT guy for, you know, 30 years. And I am not an electronics pro yet. I don't know if I ever will be. But I use chat GPT on my phone with the free account even, you know, I had to wait a little while for, for a second phase, but accidentally burned out the electronics in a piece of ham radio equipment. It was a RF phase adjuster for reducing RF noise. And the push to talk stopped working. And I took pictures of the lack of a better term, the motherboard or the main board or the unit. And it was a modern unit. Sit over to chpt. I told it what kind of electronics it was and asked for it to feed me test points to be able to find out where the components were failing inside of this piece of electronics. And it led me down the path to. And I can't remember the component offhand, but it was one of those three legged guys, probably a diode or a transistor. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but
Speaker B: solved
Speaker C: the problem for me that I, I just don't know electronics well enough to solve that problem. And I was able to do everything. Unfortunately, the, the one thing that the chat GPT will not do is improve my soldering skills. So yeah, that's, that's my chance. EPC use case ham radio story. So it's KE9CWZ back to net.
Speaker A: Oh, I wish you could solder for me. I tried soldering a couple times, just trying to learn and I am no good at it yet. But no, that's a great use case. A very good use case. Again, I know when Gemini. In case you didn't know this, you can turn it live and use your camera's phone and they can see what you see live. And it can actually, I mean it's, it's cool. I played with it. I'd walk around the house and say, what is this? When it first came out and it would tell me, oh, this is the clock and it is 6:30 or what is the. What is this? You know, I pointed out some phony or something and it would tell me exactly what it is. So that helps out a lot when you're trying to diagnose something. I used it in my truck, I think I mentioned with my ac. I was changing out the fan blower and motor and I couldn't. Just wasn't getting power. And so I started off there at the fan blower and I started working my way back piece of by piece using Gemini. And it could see what I could see. And I was talking to it just like I'm talking to you folks right now. And lo and behold it said, wait, go back. And I did. And it caught where one of my wires just wasn't connected well enough. And you know, could I have found it? Yes, it would have probably took me a lot longer though. Okay, well, we had another comment out there, so now let's move over to that person. I'm sorry I didn't get your car sign, but I know you had a comment. So come now with it.
Speaker B: There are some times if you have to also use it to. And some old photographs. Let me interrupt here real quick. I know I see the repeater that you're coming in on, my friend, and unfortunately we just, we can't get you. You are, you are just not making it to the repeater. I know that repeater. It's in Ringgold, Georgia and it's right up there in the mountains.
Speaker A: So I don't know if you caught
Speaker B: any of that, Josh, but I wanted to let him know we knew where he was coming from. And sometimes in the mountains, unfortunately, that's the way it goes in for upc.
Speaker A: Nope. I think I was stepping on you two there. I couldn't make out anything. I was going to give him another chance to come back if he could make a better connection with the repeater.
Speaker B: You can come back to me in a little bit and I'll go ahead and.
Speaker A: Okay, I caught enough of that to. To hear you say come back to
Speaker D: you in just a little bit.
Speaker A: So I will do that. I did not catch your call sign, so I'll probably just say, hey, the guy in Georgia, come on now. So keep your help for that. All right? All right. Anybody else who has a question, comment, use case. I'm hoping, I was actually hoping that some of you all would come up with use cases for me. I like to try new things out and I'm not the most imaginative guy in the world. So yeah, let's pause and see if anybody else has any questions, comments, use cases or any other tech related question. It does not have to be AI related.
Speaker B: Number four Uniform Papa Charlie with a possible use case.
Speaker A: All right, come on with the use case.
Speaker B: All right, well you gave it to me.
Speaker A: I just want to, I just want
Speaker D: to say that out first.
Speaker B: What about using AI to look up snake sharping that make you grow popular
Speaker D: with one life and all.
Speaker B: N4UPC.
Speaker A: Okay. That's one thing I will not be using AI for. I'm not charmed by the snake. I do enjoy building the, the habitat, the bioactive terrarium that we built. But no, I'm not a big fan of snakes. I bet you could learn the theory behind it though. I bet you.
Speaker C: Good.
Speaker A: Anybody else with comments, questions or anything else?
Speaker D: November 5th, america, quebec, mexico n5aqm with a comment.
Speaker A: All right, come with your comment.
Speaker D: Okay, this is Mike in Chandler, Arizona right outside of Phoenix. And I watched a video the other day from K Km4 ack Jason and he was talking about AI and, and doing a, you know, getting programming files for your handy talking. And I said wow, that's very interesting. And he was using chat GPT. So I went on, first time ever. I'm not an AI guy yet, but first time ever went into a chat GPT and said please keep give me a CSV file with all of the Arizona repeater frequencies including the GMRs, you know, FRS frequencies and even the 900 MHz repeater frequencies because we have a pretty good network out here at 900 MHz. It came back in about three seconds with this monster code plug and I also told it to, you know, it has to be CHIRP compatible, you know so I can for this radio for the UV5R mini. And it came back and it said that the UV5R mini very politely it said it that it's not certified FCC certified but for GMRS frs, which is correct, but you can listen. And it also said the same thing about the 900 MHz frequencies except the radio is not capable of receiving up there and gave you this massive coplock that I pulled into Chirp and it worked. I had one error. It missed a tone frequency and it threw an error and I was able, it gave me the line number CHIRP did give me the line number and I'm talking, you know, and I was able to fix it and I'm talking, you know, hundreds of frequencies that I was able to load into my HT and just no time, you know, I would have to go out there and muddle through it and all that stuff. You know the drill if you're trying to program a handy talkie. So very interesting. Back to you, Josh. N5A QM Thanks.
Speaker A: They come across my feed, I think a day or two ago. I have not had a chance to watch it, so now I'm going to have to go watch it. I know that there are rays I haven't mentioned professional. There is another LLM and it's called Perplexity. They have a browser that uses Perplexity. It's called Perplexity Comments built into it. Now, Gemini and Chrome also has it. In fact, if you use Chrome and you look up. Sorry, I was switching hands and hit a button. Yeah, if you use Chrome, if you look in the top right side of your Chrome, you'll probably see this little thing that says Ask Gemini. If you click on that, you can talk to AI. And if you ask it to take control of your browser and you give it the permission, it will. So here's some use cases that I was hesitant to bring up, but y' all seem to have a pretty good grasp on AI. Now, all Christmas shopping this past year, my wife and I wanted to kind of go big this year. My kids are all grown and one of them's already moved out. And my two boys, they're 19 and soon to be 21, you know, they're getting ready to move on with their lives. So we wanted to have a pretty good Christmas. But we wanted to get them some things that would help them as they started moving out. I used Perplexity Comment, the browser with the assistant to do my Christmas shopping. Now, when I tell you we saved thousands of dollars, I am not exaggerating. We didn't spend thousands of dollars, but we saved it. For an example, we bought mattresses for each one of the boys. They needed two mattresses. If you've ever had teenage boys or if you were born, you know what I'm talking about, those things get messed up. And we found them really good ones that I think they were normally listed at like 12 or $1,300 a piece. We paid a couple of hundred dollars a piece on it. It took a little time. It took a lot of work and prompting, but I was able to have that bought. Go and search lots of different websites to find me the best valued deal on the mattresses. My wife and I. My wife, she wanted a new robo vacuum. She wanted one that mops. And so this was a big. This was a big gift. To her, but it was valued at $3,500. Now, we did this during the Black Friday week, but I searched for one, in fact, Darrell, another ham radio. Another ham radio guy, VO1UKZ. He's matter about know him, knows a lot about them. And so I was kind of picking his brain about it and I was using AI to search. And lo and behold, I found this vacuum that normally listed at $3,500 and I paid a little over $400 for it. So that was her big Christmas gift of the year. But as you can tell, you can use it to save some money. I am using it right now to shop for isopods and springtails for my wife's snakes habitat. She found some for 50 bucks. I found some for around $26. Same thing, just a different provider from a smaller website that may not have shown up in the top Google results. Let me take a quick break. So as you can tell on use cases, you can use it to save money. Use it for looking for new or used ham radio gear. That's something I'm getting ready to do, especially as I study for my general license. I would really like to start doing poda. We have numerous state parks around me and I mean, we got three of them within an hour. And I would really love to get out there. My kids love going there. My wife likes nature and I like radio. So that's one of my goals. Yeah, some great use cases. Is there anybody else who has any questions, comments, use cases, anything at all? Come now with your call phone. W9dwt with a comment. All right, I heard W9DWT. I'll come to you in just a second. And I heard the guy in Georgia, you were still breaking up a little bit, but let's give you a try. Come down with your call sign. I was able to get your call sign. You are breaking up, but I was able to get your call sign. Kilo 5 Oscar Mike Goff. Go ahead.
Speaker B: Well, I use Gemini to help me write a script and prompt for videos because I'm a YouTube content creator and I use grub. I think it's good.

Speaker A: The Gears. Monthly general membership meetings are held on the third Monday night of the month at the Butte County Public Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue in Chico. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting starts at 7pm
Speaker B: all are welcome. W6RHC repeater check 2.

Speaker A: To create the content. And I also use free version of
Speaker B: ChatGPT to help me create Songwriter.
Speaker C: Oh, wow. Yeah, I got enough of that. But I could tell that you were using it to make music and write song lyrics and stuff. That's. You know, I've done that with. With Sono, that. That music AI platform. Like I said, I used it for my. My grandkids, they get a kick out of it, especially when you make a song especially for them. My granddaughter, who is all of three years old and has a good strong head on her shoulders, she really likes her kitties and princess songs. So we try to make sure that she gets confused every so often. But no, that's a great use case. Let's move down to W9 Delta. W tango whiskey nine delta whiskey tango. Come now with your comment.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: Hey, thanks, Joshua. This is W9DWT. Just want to make a quick comment. Some people, just normal folk that may not be technically savvy, maybe a little skeptical about AI and they might think, oh boy, this is bad news for. For me. It's going to replace me. I'm not going to have a job anymore after a while. But no, as far as the job market goes, AI will never replace humans. Never. Because AI is just a machine. It's just a tool. It's a tool. You got to treat it like a tool. Another tool in your toolbox. And I heard one technical guy call it just a real sophisticated random number generator. That's all it is. But I'll take here. And I'm going to give you an idea. Mother's Day is coming up. Here's a fun thing you can try. Ask. Give the AI a description of your wife or your mother. Describe her like she's blonde, she loves the beach, she loves to cook. Whatever attributes you can describe of your wife or your mother are. And then just say, write a poem. Write a poetic sentiment on Mother's Day, or if it's her birthday, write her a birthday card. And you wouldn't believe what you get. It'll come out with the most beautiful poetic sentiment you could never have dreamed up yourself. Anyway, that's all I got to say. This is W9 deep.
Speaker C: That can be a. An either a really good use of AI unless you get caught. I mean, it was like, my wife. My wife. Oh, that's. And then she gets on my ChatGPT history and sees that I use that. She'll be like, you didn't put no effort into it. See, then I'd be in the doghouse, which I don't mind. I got a really nice blood healer and she cuddles sometimes, so I won't. I don't mind being in the doghouse from time to time, but no, that, that is a great, a great way to do it, writing papers. You know, if you're in college and you're writing papers, it can help you format everything the way it's supposed to be. All right, well, with that, I think looking at the clock and we don't have very much more time left and I don't want to run over, so I'm going to ask one more time if there's anybody who has any comments or anything, and then I'll end up wrapping this up. Oh, before I do, you had mentioned that it's just a tool and I like to explain it like this. Tony Stark, if you're into Iron man, is just a smart guy. That's all he ever was, a really smart guy until he built the Iron man suit and put it on. That made him a really smart and powerful guy. To me, is exactly the same. I'm a really decent netsuite administrator. I know a lot about netsuite. I can hold my own with anybody out there in the world. But you give me AI and I become a super netsuite administrator. And I'm not joking. It really is like you putting on a super suit. You can be a really good ham radio operator. You add in AI and you become a fantastic ham radio operator because you'll learn something that you didn't know, even if you've been doing it for 40, 50, or 80 years. So that's my analogy. AI is like putting on a superhero's suit. It takes somebody who's already good and makes them great. All right, with that, I'm going to take final comments. Any comments, any questions or anything before we get ready to close this out. Come now with your call phone. Okay, with comment.
Speaker A: Let's go ahead and take those two. And then we've got to clear. We've got a net starting in 5 minutes. N4UPC.
Speaker C: Okay, who had the comment? Come down with your comment. And I hate to keep it short, but keep it short, please. All right, well, I didn't hear anything come back, so I'm going to go ahead and get ready to close it again. Just a couple takeaways real quick. AI is a tool. It's not magic, it's not a search engine. But it can be very helpful. You already know enough how to use it. Go to chatgpt.com and start talking to it like you would anybody else. There's nothing secret, nothing magical, nothing hard about getting started. And before I forget, I have, I have six free trials to Gemini that I can hand out for my account. If you're interested in a four month free trial, you'll have to use your, your, your credit card or whatever to, to set it up, but you'll get four months for free. I only have six. So if you're interested in it, send me an email. Kj5irqmail.com and I'll be glad to hand those out to everyone.
Speaker D: So.
Speaker C: But once they're gone, they're gone. With that, I am. This is KJ Fab irq. I appreciate the time that I've had today to talk about AI and I hope that you all learned something from it. With that, I am drawing this net to a close. Y' all have a great evening.
Speaker D: Great net, Josh.
Speaker C: Yeah, Josh, this is KD9CWZ. But I have an exit plan for that ball python. I got mine from my college roommate and he's 38 years old now. They live to 50 KE9CWZ. You know, we read that after we got it, we had a neighbor who was getting rid of it. And my wife is an animal fanatic and she's like, I always wanted the snake. So she got the snake. And then we learned about it. My daughter happened to love it too. So if something happens to us, well, my daughter would just take it on. But yeah, that's true. They do live a long time.
Speaker A: I think we doubled. I don't know if everybody heard that. We've got a NAT starting, literally less than two minutes. The Colorado Astronomy Net for all those that stay connected or are going to be connected. For the Colorado Astronomy Net connected to the fireside. N4UPC.
Speaker D: Well, thanks for that. N4UPC. This is KI0IR. I'll give you a few minutes. This is KI0AR net control for the Colorado Star meeting. I'll be starting that in just a few minutes. Just trying to get my stuff together before I start the net. So you got a few minutes. This is KI0AR CA0AR in for UPC.
Speaker A: Sorry about that. I was trying to get that out because we have a net just before your all's net and I always try to leave it a 5 minute buffer and people were talking and I don't think they heard me. So sorry. Step on. You guys in for upc. Hope you all have a great day.
Speaker B: No worries.
Speaker D: No worries at all. I was just waiting for people to clear as well. I usually give them a couple of minutes. No rush. I got plenty of time for my net, so I do appreciate that. This is Ki0ar. Please stand by. I got another minute or so of prepping and getting things started before I roll into the net. This is Ki0ar.
Speaker C: Join us for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repe.

The Gears Net will be held Tuesday night starting at 7:30pm all amateur radio operators are welcome to join in on the net W Fix RHC Repeater Check 3.

This is Ki0ir. Does anyone need to use the repeater systems before I begin this evening's Colorado Astronomy Net? Please go ahead now. Calling the Colorado Astronomy Net. Calling the Colorado Astronomy net. This is Ki0ar. My name is Bernice and I'll be your net control for this evening's Colorado Astronomy Net. Just a reminder, the three minute time off function is still in effect so doing long transmissions, please allow the repeater systems to reset themselves. Also please use the word brake for emergency or priority traffic. If there is an emergency or prior to traffic, please go ahead now. Okay, nothing heard. This is ki0arnet control for the Colorado Astronomy Net. This net meets every Tuesday night at 7pm let's see. I'm trying to get here. Let's see. Home. Just a sec. 7pm Mountain Time. It's 0100 Zulu to discuss topics of an astronomical nature. What's up in the night skies for the week? Any of the special events that may be of interest to the amateur radio astronomy enthusiasts around the world. Also, this is one of the few nets where your check in does count. I tally up the numbers and send them off to JPL at the end of each counts as part of their outreach to the general public of which we are a part. So all check ins are definitely appreciated. I take check ins several ways. If you happen to have net logger, I'll see your call sign pop up in the AIM window and I'll get you logged in right away. Also if you are on YouTube, for those of you who are over on YouTube, welcome. We are broadcasting over there tonight. If you don't have a call sign, that's fine. Over on YouTube I just like to know your first name and your location. If you do have a call sign you can post that in the in the chat window as well. And I'll get you logged in that way too. Obviously I'll take them over the air in just a few minutes and I also take them via email. For those of that those of you who may be out there and can't log in any other way or are having difficulties checking in in one of those ways as well, you can send me an email to ki0arzeroar.com just let me know you're out there. And node 52879 disconnected.

Af, 6 ncx. Testing. Six ncx. Clear.

Gears holds a slow speed Morse code net on 40 meters every Thursday night starting at 7pm Frequency of 7.44 plus or minus if the frequency is in use. All licensed amateur radio operators are welcome to join in the next W6 RHC repeater check one.

This is kn6bww reminding you all that the Gears net will be on the Gears east Repeater tonight at 146.850 MHz negative offset TL tone is 11 0.9. Again a gear net Tuesday night net will be at 7:30 this evening on the Gears each repeater. We're having an issue with the Gears left rep.

W6 rhc repeater check 2. Music cyj radio check three.

Speaker A: This is kn6tw. I just heard radio check on gears east. That was me, KB6 Cyj Scott here in downtown. Beautiful.
Speaker B: Chico
Speaker C: Scott, the criminal young juvenile. This is KN6TW, Papa Whiskey. Whiskey.
Speaker B: Good evening to you. A couple of days since I turned this radio on. I just thought I'd see if it was still working.
Speaker C: Is indeed working. But right now, unfortunately, the Gears west repeater is not working. So we are going to have the net
Speaker A: on Gears east tonight. Okay, well, I'll be here. I think.
Speaker B: Still around. I'll be here.
Speaker C: Very good. Watch out for that space junk. Falling down. KN6DWW, clear for the moment.
Speaker B: Thanks for the comeback.

Hey, good evening. This is Greg K6 Gab in North Chico. I am in and out this evening, but it's good to hear everybody's voices.

Speaker A: Am at the Farmer's Skillet in Chico. I encourage you all to come on down, have breakfast and, and have a good rag chew after you're done chewing your breakfast. Also regarding the repeaters, Gears west is currently down. As I'm sure a lot of you know, I'm gonna break for just a second. Kn6t WW continuing. We've had an issue there at the last second. Previous user of that frequency we switched to said they wanted it back. So we were not able to coordinate that frequency. So when, when Gears west comes up again, it will be on a new frequency. That frequency will be 147.94 negative offset. The PL tone is still 123.0. I'll repeat that and it will also go out in, in email when we get that far. Kn16ww continuing. The new Gears west frequency when the repeater comes back up will be 147. Got 945 MHz negative offset. PL tone 123.0. And yeah, there has been whack a mole with the, with repeaters. Bill's right about that for me. I spent the last few days in Sacramento very nice with the family. We were going to be grandparents before too long. So we're down there for a baby shower and that's it for me. KN6P CWW back to control.
Speaker B: Hey Jamie, great.
Speaker C: Congratulations on about to become a grandparent. That's exciting. And one question on the repeater thing. Do you have any idea when we might be able to use the Gears west repeater again?
Speaker A: I don't have a specific date. It's going to be as soon as our trustee can get up there and have a long talk with the repeater. It's a pretty remote location so it's, it's tough to get up there, but it should be.
Speaker C: I
Speaker A: don't, don't quote me on this because this is not coming from the trustee. But I suspect in the next week or two it will be back up. And I know he's, he's really working hard to get that back online. KM16WW back to control.
Speaker B: Okay, great.
Speaker C: Thanks for the information, Jamie. And we know it's not from the horse's mouth, but gives us some indication here. So good deal. All right, next is K6 EST. Jim, how are you doing, Jim?
Speaker D: Good evening, Larry, and thank you very much.
Speaker C: This is Jim, K6 EST and I'm
Speaker D: gone for a while. Glad to be back in town. Glad to hear everybody on the radio
Speaker C: enjoying the repeater drama that's all I got tonight.
Speaker D: Back to you.
Speaker B: Okay, thanks for the check in, Jim,
Speaker C: and I'm sure we're all glad to have you back in town too. Well, next is me, Larry, KF6NCX. I've been rolling with the repeaters and rolling with the weather, kind of enjoying what may be our last, our last real cool weather for a while. Been doing some, some yard work the last couple of days and over the weekend had a good time in. It was the seventh call area cuso party, a neat contest where all the, all the states where hams have seven in their call sign like Oregon and Washington and Nevada and Idaho and so on kind of are lumped together for one, one big cuso party. And so there was a lot of activity and it was fun. There's not too much on the contest agenda that's exciting this weekend. But there is one I'm interested in kind of a new contest called the Canadian Prairies Cuso party. And the host provinces for that are like Alberta and Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Maybe, maybe there are others, but those are the main ones so far as I know. Okay, that's about it for me. Let's see. Next on the list is Bill KC6UFE. How are you doing, Bill?
Speaker B: KC6UFE Bill in Cape and good evening to the net.
Speaker E: Well, my Internet provider has had multiple power failures and disconnects all week long. So it's been kind of a, it really lets you know how much how dependent we've become on the Internet and being able to connect. So I've basically sent back into the stone age about the last week or so and they finally looks like they finally got it stable. But we'll see how it goes. The thing that I really annoyed me the most was not being able to connect to the spotting networks and being able to log my contacts. Other than that, somehow I managed to survive. So I'm doing all right. So back to net KC6UFE.
Speaker C: Okay, Bill. Yeah, I know what you mean about that. It's can really frustrating when the Internet Internet is not there. I grind my teeth and do what I can to make it come back sooner as soon as I can, but it is really frustrating. Well, I'm glad you're back back online and back in business. Good deal. Well, Next we have K06NCI. Chris, how are you this evening? Chris
Speaker B: I'm doing good.
Speaker D: I just set up a new mobile radio in my truck and that's what I'm talking on right now. Just getting ready to go down to Sacramento early Tomorrow morning and. And I'll probably be talking on it a little bit, but yeah, it's not still super exciting to me just because I'm, you know, new to this and still learning. So this is my first big boy radio. I'm pretty stoked, but other than that. Yeah, not too happy about it getting hotter. No, I love, you know, the nice weather and, you know, the summertime, but not necessarily the heat here in Chico. But as long as you're on the water, it's okay. So we got that going for us, I guess, if you're getting out there. But other than that, doing good. Just another Tuesday night. KO6MCI. Done.
Speaker C: Okay, thanks, Chris. Are you a pretty new ham? It kind of sounds like that, yeah.
Speaker D: I just got my license about a month ago now and I was actually studying for. I just got my tech license. I was studying for the general last week and got kind of sidetracked with building an antenna mount because I have a roof rack on my truck and I wanted like a good ground plan on it. Right now I just have a little magnetic mount on the front of the roof which has a sunroof roof. And so I'm looking for a better ground plane. I have a roof rack on it and I wanted to build up basically welded together like a sheet metal platform, like a, like a three foot round sheet metal platform that I'm gonna run an end of my own mount and, and welded some legs to it so that I can u bolt it down to the, to the roof rack. And so, yeah, I got a little sidetracked on this project and then I had a buddy, you know, hook me with the lightly used radio. And so, yeah, I just put this in and yeah, short story long, yes, I'm new, but should be getting my amateur here pretty soon. As soon as I can get back to studying.
Speaker B: Hey, well, good deal, Chris.
Speaker C: It's great to hear you on the net and congratulations on getting licensed and have a good trip down to Sacramento tomorrow and hope you talk to a bunch of people on the way and that's great. Our last check in for the evening is K06FNY. Steve. How are you, Steve?
Speaker E: KO6FNY. I'm doing well, thank you. Also new to the club and new to the radio. I'm just excited when I can successfully
Speaker C: get on a repeater.
Speaker E: So I'm feeling pretty good about myself.
Speaker C: Great. Congratulations to you too. And I hope both you and Steve and Chris can make it to the gears meeting, which will be coming up a little later this month. It's great to have you guys licensed and, and part of the amateur community and getting on the air for the net. Good deal. Okay, well is there anybody else, any other late members or any visitors, anybody we missed who wants to check in at this point. Down at Big? Just checking in. Okay, great. Dan, good to have you check in and hope you have a good evening. Thanks for the check in. Anyone else wanting to check in before we wind things up here, Any last comments? Anybody have a question or want to say anything before we close the net?
Speaker D: Yeah, Chris Ko6NCI just had a question about that Gears meeting that you're talking about. I know that it's been mentioned before, but I can't remember when and where are those? I think they're at the library, but I can't remember when
Speaker B: they're at the library.
Speaker C: And we start at 6pm for kind of a social hour. And then there's a meeting, actually starts at 7 at the Chico Library. And I believe it's the third Monday of the month. But if I'm not right on that, maybe Jamie or someone else can correct me. Jamie,
Speaker A: you are correct. It is. It is the third Monday of the month and doors officially open at 6:30, but they actually open earlier than that usually. And the meeting meeting itself starts at seven. So you got all that right? K at six pww.
Speaker B: Okay, thanks.
Speaker C: Thanks, Jamie, for seconding what I had to say and affirming that I'm still in my right mind here. Good deal. Well, hope, hope that you can make it, Chris and, and you too, Steve. It's always fun to get together and we have a program of some kind and talk about stuff. So it's, it's a good time, those meetings. Good to see everybody. Anybody else with any last comments before we close? Yes, Jamie,
Speaker A: real quick. Remember there's also that what we just talked about was the, the monthly general membership meeting. But remember breakfast at the Farmer's Skillet in Chico this, this Saturday morning. Don't want to miss that. It's a good chance to meet a bunch of the members. K6TWW.
Speaker B: Okay, yeah.
Speaker C: Thanks for that reminder, Jamie. So one last time, or maybe not, but anybody else with another comment before we say good night?
Speaker B: Okay.
Speaker C: Well, this concludes this week's Golden Empire amateur radio society club net. We're closing things down at 7:55pm thank you to everyone who checked in tonight. You were invited back next week. This is Larry KF6NCX returning the W6RHC repeater to its normal monitoring service. And as I said the net is closed at 7:55pm 73 to all KS6 NCX is clear.

Your radio is on the right frequency. This is the home of sac Valley's original 105 W6 GRC with a PL tone of 110.9.

Ust QST, QST. This is K2.6K opening Sacramento Valley traffic in this part of the national traffic system. And the purpose of this is to relate more traffic to. And now Sacramento, Dallas and provided standard. This is addressed in this. Please go. Transmission and control. All stations are requested to dog frequency W fix R H C R. City station with emergency and party traffic. Please come down. Station. We're traffic to. Non roll call, folks. Kf6 so behind kf6, obi, mike and willows. No traffic. Good evening, mike. Thank you. Kg6ku calling rolling. No traffic. Kg6tso. Good evening, lester. In the group this is kg6tso, bessie with no traffic. Thank you, bessie. Kf60. Good evening, lester. Kf6djy, bruce and chico. No traffic. And I'm back from my trip again. Welcome back. Thank you. K6rcs, K6pmt, kilo, echo6, papa, mike, tango, russ and gerber. Good evening. Unless they're in a group and I have no traffic. Good evening, russ. Thank you. Kc6ufe, kc6ufe. Bill in cape. No traffic. Good evening, lester. Good evening, bill. Thank you. Kn6pww. Kn6pww. This is jamie and chico with no traffic and good evening lester and the net. Good evening, jamie. Thank you. Ko6nci, chris. Ko6nci, this is chris and chico. No traffic to report. Good evening lester and the net. Good evening, chris. Thank you. All right, doctor, roll us. I have it. Do we have any late members or visitors? Restor check in. There is no further traffic or check in. This is K6K closing. Check minerving this net east daily at 2100 hours local time through the W6RC repeater of 146.95Golden MHz. All stations are excused to like take care about it. Checked in tonight and the golden remix. And repeat this. Meds closed at 21. 3 local time. $73. Kg 6K year old clearing frequency.

Get your morning started off on the right foot. Listen in for the coffee break Net Daily at 7:30am here on the W6 GRC repeater.