Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Sunday, September 13, 2026

Demystification! Not Magic! How Claude and Dean made the KK4DAS -- N2CQR Video (Be Sure to Read the Report Until the End!)

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  Many have asked how the video was made.  Dean and Claude (but not Claude Shannon! ) explain here:  https://kk4das.blogspot.com/2026/09/how...
Friday, September 11, 2026

Claude Makes a Video About N2CQR calling KK4DAS

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Quick!  Before Claude turns us all into paper clips!    I guess this is part of a series.  First we had Notebook LLM making a podcast about ...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Hidehiko JA9MAT's Self-Quenching Super-Regenerative Receiver from Japan -- AI Gets It Wrong!

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Updated image to show quenching Hidehiko reports that in Japan, this is called a "Self Quenching Circuit" and that it is popular w...
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Monday, July 6, 2026

How Hans G0UPL Cracked the Code for Stable I and Q from the Si5351

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L to R: Farhan, Roy Lewallen, Eric Guth and Hans Summers Back in 2018, I remember Farhan telling me that "Hans has cracked the code...
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Monday, June 29, 2026

SolderSmoke Podcast #265: AI Pete, WSPR, sBITX, San Diego, Last Ditcher, NYC, 17-12 Fix, MMM Blasphemy, 6T9er, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast #265 is ready for download.  Video Version:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jWYe6NxnJA Audio Version:  http://solders...
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Thursday, June 25, 2026

My AI QSL Card: Wood Boxes, a D-104, Books, a 'Scope, the EB-63A, Guapo, our Sticker, and a Cup of Coffee! KK0S's Cards

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Inspired by the ZL2BNE card sent to me by VK3HN, and the excellent question from Walter KA4KXX,  I endeavored today to create a QSL card tha...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Google Blogspot and YouTube Stupidity -- Why SolderSmoke is Rejected by the Google Bots

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I was wondering why, after many years of carrying ad-sense and YouTube ads, the SolderSmoke blog and the SolderSmoke YouTube Channel were su...
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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Heathkits and American Industrial Decline

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This is an interesting video about the rise and fall of the Heathkit company, and how that company affected the rise and fall of American ma...
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Friday, January 16, 2026

MIT Technology Review on Why AI LLMs are So Strange and So Alien

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Until recently, I thought that the AI LLMs were just sort of fancy, souped-up search engines.  Google on steroids.   But then they started g...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Why is it that AI-provided electronic circuits often don't work in the real world?

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Like many, I have turned to AI for circuit ideas.  And like many, I have been surprised by how many of these ideas just don't work.  I h...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Pete N6QW Asks Copilot about Homebrew vs. Store Bought

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Copilot is remarkably perceptive.   This AI-generated message really explains very well the differences between homebrew and store bought ge...
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Friday, October 17, 2025

"Keep Calm and Solder On"

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  So not everything that comes from AI is bad. This AI generated picture is pretty good.  That actually looks a bit like my rig.  And as som...
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Wikipedia: AI causing dangerous drop in human visitors. SolderSmoke is seeing this too!

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  48,060 visits to the SolderSmoke Blog site on September 21, 2025????  I took a look at where the traffic to the SolderSmoke blog has been ...
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Friday, October 10, 2025

Does a simple, single diode envelope detector function the same way as a product detector does?

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Mike WU2D has an interesting series of videos on the simple detectors used in crystal radios.  Mike's videos touch on a discussion that ...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

An Australian Perspective on AI's Impact on the Internet

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-10-08/how-googles-ai-overviews-are-affecting-australian-news-websites/105839588 Thanks to Paul VK3H...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

The Internet is Dying

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 Thanks to Rogier PA1ZZ for sending this.  Rogier is a real human!  
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Friday, July 25, 2025

The Decline in Quality

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"Artificial intelligence itself could deteriorate if no action is taken. In 2024, bot activity accounted for almost half of internet tr...
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Friday, November 22, 2024

Sam WN5C uses ChatGPT as an Emergency Elmer

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Sam WN5C has been on the blog before.  Last year we covered his heroic use of a Michigan Mighty Mite at Thunderbird State Park:   https://so...
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Friday, November 1, 2024

More on How the AI Deep Dive Podcasts Were Made -- Soon: PeteGPT!

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  So, soon we may actually have these kinds of AI products using voices and even video images that are known to us, but, with the dialogue c...
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