AI sometimes gets a bad press.
In the case of historical reconstruction videos some are very good. Occasionally the AI get things very wrong e.g. the reconstruction showing Edinburgh in the 1880s with British Railways engines post 1948!
On the whole I am very impressed.
My beacon was turned on around breakfast.
For a long time I have expressed my concerns for the future of amateur radio.
The things that appealed to us years ago no longer appear as the magic they did to us long ago.
Various suggestions have been made to correct this and get more people into the hobby and retain these. It is very hard to generalise and in some places the hobby is growing.
It was interesting to read on Amateur Radio Weekly one person's "take" on this.
See https://ke9v.net/2026/01/24/your-fault.html
In my view, despite everything, I expect amateur radio to be very different in less than 20 years.
My IC-705 at 5W to the V2000 omni was turned on late morning.
UPDATE 1525z: spotted by 11 stations with the best OE6JCG (1256km).
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Just out of curiosity, I put my callsign into the Internet Archive to see what appeared. It looks like my YouTube videos are archived along with my Scrapbook.
See https://archive.org/details/sbjuly22/page/22/mode/2up
Everything I have ever done is free to be shared.
My beacon was turned on at 1123z.
UPDATE 1155z: Spotted by EA8BFK (2880km).
From about 1100z I have been monitoring 40.680MHz FT8. UPDATE 1434z: 4 stations in Europe spotted in 4 different countries. At one time I ...
