{"id":5580,"date":"2024-11-22T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/11\/22\/sam-wn5c-uses-chatgpt-as-an-emergency-elmer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:20","slug":"sam-wn5c-uses-chatgpt-as-an-emergency-elmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/11\/22\/sam-wn5c-uses-chatgpt-as-an-emergency-elmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam WN5C uses ChatGPT as an Emergency Elmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sam WN5C has been on the blog before. Last year we covered his heroic use of a Michigan Mighty Mite at Thunderbird State Park: <\/span>https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/sam-wn5c-builds-michigan-mighty-mite.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

This time, Sam writes about a good ham radio use for ChatGPT: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Hope you\u2019re doing well. Just a quick note: ChatGPT is turning out to be a great homebrewing tool for me.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

My elmer has been swamped with family issues, so my basic questions (\u201ccan you explain this circuit for me\u201d) and hard questions (\u201cwhy doesn\u2019t this circuit I built work?!\u201d) that he usually responds to right away has been a bit delayed. I\u2019m in the process of designing a 5-band QRP CW transceiver with a superhet receiver and SSB receive so I\u2019m learning a bunch of new circuits.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve hated the idea of AI as someone who writes a lot (it cheapens what I\u2019ve spent my career trying to perfect!), but man it is smart. I can ask it all kinds of questions. For example, it helped me design a little IF amp last night and ensured I got my impedance matching right (it\u2019s great for mashing up lots of circuits and ensuring they work together). I can ask it for suggestions on part types and values. It helps with Arduino code if you\u2019re into that. You can use plain language but it does well with heavy jargon. And, which I find really cool, it will step you through troubleshooting. It teaches the math, too.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Anyway, you or your readers might find this helpful. Especially when one is building at 3 AM and needs an answer immediately.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


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Thanks Sam! <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sam WN5C has been on the blog before. Last year we covered his heroic use of a Michigan Mighty Mite at Thunderbird State Park: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/sam-wn5c-builds-michigan-mighty-mite.html This time, Sam writes about a good ham radio use for ChatGPT: Hope you\u2019re doing well. Just a quick note: ChatGPT is turning out to be a great homebrewing tool … Continue reading “Sam WN5C uses ChatGPT as an Emergency Elmer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-michigan-mighty-mite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5582,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions\/5582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}