Copasetic Flow

I've been recording more of my POTA and SOTA activation, and then experimenting with how to  publish the results as well as exploring what information I can derive from the recordings post-activation. One thing I'm findin out is that—of course—my CW copy isn't perfect. Searching through the entire recording of an activation is a bit much for me at the moment, so I lighted on a middle ground technique: determine whether or not the QSOs were with POTA registered users, and if not, investigate those portions of the recording I was fairly certain that ChatGPT could help with this coding task. I was right. The entire coding session took 14 minutes from start to finish. I told ChatGPT about the undocumented REST API presented by pota.app  , gave it an example, and asked it to write a Python script for me that would accept a callsign through the Linux input pipe and then tell me either all the info for the callsign, or print that the callsign wasn't found. Out dropped a script...

 I'm still plugging away on the straight key for Project TouCans. It's still a tossup at this point how many of the keying issues are my keying speed, and how many are due to various delays in the system. I got a nice little boost from ChatGPT over the weekend though! It cranked out a straight key enabling web page that it took me about two hours to massage into what I wanted. You can see the finished code here . You'll notice that the sidetone uses a .wav file. There wasn't a more simple way to get JavaScript to generate a tone that I could find than using a .wav file. (Remember when computers beeped when you told them to beep? Sigh...)  But, that meant I needed a constant tone .wav file. I, of course, did not have one. I asked ChatGPT to create one for me and the direct results were underwhelming. It produced nothing that I could easily use.  Then! I noticed the analysis button on the chat results. I clicked there and was presented with the Python code that ChatGPT w...

 Hot on the heels of the night-vision Google pixel articles, Simon Willison clears up something I've often wondered about. Some of the metadata in jpeg IS in binary! Even better though, Simon mentioned that Chat GPT can help read a photo's binary metadata fields.