Fun with GPT-5 and HF Propagation Analysis (Model Verification)

My first QSO perched on the edge of One Maritime Plaza was with AL7KC. That's not too surprising, I pretty regularly communicate with LA7KC. Except. It was kinda surprising because there was a skyscraper—Gateway Vista West—directly across the street between me and Alaska and about twenty-three meters away.

View from the QTH

That one little skyscraper ld to a lot of fun HF propagation analysis using GPT-5. I described the area around my transmit site at One Maritime Plaza to GPT5. I got some really interesting interference patterns based on the surrounding buildings. As I was going, I double checked GPT5's output to make sure the buildings were where I'd said they were. I had to change a few obvious mistakes, but other than that, everything looked ok.

Then, last night, it occurred to me that I could ask GPT5 to check its geographic model form me.

This is the resultin czml the GPT5 made of the points I'd asked it to model.

Clearly, I had a few things to straighten out.

After clarifying to the LLM the coordinates of the building, I wound up here with this mostly corrected version of Gateway Vista West.

At which point I asked GPT-5 to put the entire model back in. Here's where I am now. I need to inquire as to why the walls on the Alcoa building are as thick with points as they are. I beleive/hope that has to do with material modeling for concrete/rebar walls based on a journal article GPT5 found, but I'll keep you posted.

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