Eclectic Technology: Artificial Intelligence and Radio Contesting

摘要

Scott Wright, KØMD, is the Editor of National Contest Journal (NCJ). I've asked him to share an interesting perspective on how artificial intelligence could someday impact at least one aspect of amateur radio. - Steve Ford, WB8IMY Imagine that it's 2030, and nearly all hams have a software-based transceiver, either alone or in combination with a superheterodyne architecture. A software-defined radio (SDR) is able to sample the spectrum of interest in parallel to what you're receiving off your antenna system. It can decode the CW signals and pre-populate the call signs like a spotting cluster. It also measures the received strengths of each signal it's identifying, and the "pileup rating" for each running station. These ratings can be color coded or have a small numerical rating. Some running stations have few stations calling them. They are rated as "5," meaning they would be easy to contact. Some are being called by hundreds of contesters and are rated as a "1," or a very difficult pileup to break.