Paper Log to LoTW with AI
I was licensed in late 2018 and got on HF for the first time in 2019. Since then, I have been on the air a lot with FT8, CW, and SSB. I digitally log (i.e. no paper) FT8 QSOs, contest QSOs (too many), and POTA activation QSOs. I do paper-log POTA hunter contacts, DXpedition contacts, and casual QSOs. This past weekend I converted two ARRL logbooks worth of QSOs to a Google spreadsheet, and then converted that to an ADIF file for upload to Logbook of the World (LoTW). I used ChatGPT for both of these conversions. LLMs are very good at processing textual data for pattern-matching and identifying anomalies. My Google spreadsheet only had ~1100 rows, so this seems like a reasonable task for an AI service’s free tier. ...