https://backburner.blog/tags/logging/ Recent content in Logging on Back Burner Blog Hugo en Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:14:18 -0400 https://backburner.blog/posts/paper-log-to-lotw/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:14:18 -0400 https://backburner.blog/posts/paper-log-to-lotw/ <p>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 <em>do</em> paper-log POTA hunter contacts, DXpedition contacts, and casual QSOs.</p> <p>This past weekend I converted two <a href="https://home.arrl.org/action/Store/Product-Details/productId/114296">ARRL logbooks</a> worth of QSOs to a Google spreadsheet, and then converted that to an ADIF file for upload to <a href="https://www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world">Logbook of the World (LoTW)</a>. 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&rsquo;s free tier.</p>