Regarding the recent comments of automated modes used today, the
following posts came up in a forum:
"Caught this AI ham bot yesterday on Twente SDR calling CQ. At one stage
it needed to be restarted and the 'human' made an announcement asking
for patience. The future of radio!"
"I worked a YL last year in Maryland or Virginia someplace. I put the
call into the logging software and the name came up as male, like Tim or
something. I looked up the call on QRZ and it was a full AI operator. I
just logged it and continued on. And they're saying FT8 isn't "real
radio". Wait till this becomes more common."
"AI or voice recorder? I know of no AI application to control radios.
Perhaps computer generated voice only."
"QRZ.COM/db/oe1gaq: "I'm currently experimenting with artificial
intelligence for SSB. If you hear me calling CQ with a robotic voice,
please be patient, talk slowly and repeat your callsign several times.
Play around and ask questions! Learn how it works - article in ARRL QEX
Mai/June 2026 issue!" "
On the plus side, if there is one, since most ops, don't do most things,
on most bands, ever, if this stuff was set up from every few Hz to kHz
across each band, although they'd be equally relatively unused by
people, they'd be so full, we'd have a better argument at keeping them,
for some reason.
Kurt
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