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HRN 541: 🥊👴AAQ vs GPT🤖🥊
Recently Gary K4AAQ bullied ChatGPT into submission on some incorrect information about GMRS channels. Both entities (meat sack and bit sack) say wrong things with absolute confidence. This time, Gary thinks he’s right.
Meanwhile, we might as well retire. AI is doing podcasts now.
HRN 540: O Holy… Grail?
This week, Jason KC5HWB did a show titled "Do We Have TOO MANY Digital Modes?". He was talking about Digital VOICE modes on VHF/UHF, including D-STAR, DMR, System Fusion, P25, NXDN and M17, and how some hams think we should just have ONE DV mode. That show is here:
There’s more to talk about on that suject, so Jason joins Gary K4AAQ live to carry on, with one of Gary’s favorite topics, the ‘Holy Grail’ multi-mode VHF/UHF DV radio. Will we ever get one?
We may talk about some GMRS stuff, too.
HRN 539: Known 4 Always Answering Questions
Just repurposing Gary’s prolific comments on Facebook and Reddit
Not much of a show
HRN 537: Helene Follow-up 🌀
While Hurricane Milton has more recently crossed the state of Florida, we don’t have any Ham Radio information from there yet. Meanwhile, activity in western North Carolina continues daily in recovery from Hurricane Helene.
Steve McAtee N0JJO recently returned from several days deployed in the area and joins David W0DHG and Gary K4AAQ to relate his experience.
https://HamRadioNow.tv
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HRN 536: Ad Hoc Helene 🌀 Nets
Two ad-hoc nets carrying Health & Welfare traffic for western North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene have gotten all the attention. Here’s what happened
Here’s a story from Charlotte NC TV station WCNC. Dan Girto K2DMG has been on the air on the Mt. Mitchell 145.19 repeater, directing traffic every day since last Saturday. it’s not an ‘official’ ARES net. It’s very ad-hoc, but the Mt. Mitchell repeater, on the highest peak east of the Mississippi, has wide coverage across western North Carolina, so many hams and agencies are aware of the service it’s providing. And it’s being temporarily live-streamed on Broadcastify
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/43107
https://HamRadioNow.tv
Amateur Radio gets a very brief shout-out in this NBC News report from Bristol TN. No video of our operation, but at least someone got word to the news crew.
https://HamRadioNow.tv
HRN 535: HEL(L)ENE
Hurricane Helene devistated parts of Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina. We’re hoping to have some guests from ARES/Skywarn groups join us to update the ham radio response.
7232 is the NC ARES Tarheel Emergency Net frequency, but it doesn’t appear that the traffic I’m hearing is officially an ARES net – more of an ad-hoc net with mostly INBOUND health and welfare info.