Australian Amateur Radio & Television
The very short story of my experience with OpenAI‘s ChatGPT is: “I’m impressed”. I wanted to see how good it was at writing a html page and also how it handled it if something it creates is not correct. I start by asking: create html page that has a clock face with seconds and a…
The short answer to this according to a post on the WIA is “any”. Wow, thats a lot different from what we have been led to believe. It looks like the WIA argued that amatuer’s can build thier own equipment and use it without the need for us to have the equipment tested and approved…
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I purchased one of the Boafeng UV-13R radios on ebay for AU$67.91 from https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/334287021661. The main things that caught my attention was USB-C charging and the screen. This radio is advertised as a 10W handheld with a 8800mA/hr battery. When I got the radio I pull the battery off and there is a sticker on…
My license arrived in email this morning after doing the tests for the standard license on 22 July 2022. So got straight onto the linked UHF repeaters here in South Australia and put out a listening call. Made contact with VK5GA as my first contact as a Ham Radio operator. A thank you to a…
