Copasetic Flow

When making our QSO skip maps one of the issues we encounter is that the lines from our station to the F2 layer don't always start right at the ground. This seems to be an artifact of CZML and the fact that the Earth is not a sphere, but rather an ellipsoid, and even then, there are all those hills and mountains. The initial QSOs can wind mapped as up coming from underground: or, they can wind up starting from above the surface of the Earth In any event, it's been necessary with each map to adjust the elevation height of our station. I've yet to find a parameter to set in a czml that makes the starting point always be on the ground. "clampToGround" works for polylines that are always on the ground, but not polylines whose next point has an altitude greater than zero as the ground station to F2 layer polylines do. I added a feature into the JavaScript mapping application this week that allows me to adjust the height of all of the QSO's starting points at...

 Last week, I asked ChatGPT to create header maps per QSO from a CZML map of my POTA outing. It dumped out code that I had to fuss a little bit with, but that did the job admirably. The output is text-encode png images in the console of the Cesium Sandcastle window. I would then download those images by copying them into an html file, opening the html file in a browser, and downloading each of the images individually. That was cool, until... Last night, I made 51 QSOs at US-4571 in San Francisco. That's a lot of files to download individually, so I asked ChatGPT: Please write a JavaScript, do not use React, that can save all the images from web page locally. It responded with code that downloaded the first 10 images. I asked it for a fix That only downloaded the first ten. Please modify the code so that it downloads all the imags and uses .png as the default extension. and it produced a modified version of the code that handily downloaded all 50. See the d...

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