Sunday, 5th January, 2025

Today is the last day of the holidays, and the day to take down all the Christmas decorations. Feels a bit miserable, plus the idea of going to work is dull. Although it’ll mostly just be chatting with everyone about their holidays and not doing very much 😅. I should do some setup stuff like reset trackers and notes in prep for 2025.

I thought about tidying up logseq files. Stuff from 2022 and even 2023 probably aren’t relevant anymore. My job has changed a bit and where I had multiple pages for certain projects or scopes I’m now pretty much focused on one thing. So do I break that up into smaller pages? I like that it’s all on one page and I just expand sections. I find it quicker to find something that way as I don’t always know what to search for, but I usually know when I was.

So I’ll just leave it. That was easy.

Dusted off my web radio log book. Nginx had broken and it needed updating. It’s all back in order now. ChatGPT fixed nginx and urls which was nice. I use wavelog and for SOTA summits, you’re meant to make a new location entry for each one and then add the log to that. But it’s such a hassle to do that, plus you end up with so many stations, it’s a mess. So I think I’m going to consolidate down to two log locations - home and portable. It does mean that there’s nowhere convenient to capture my summit. Makes me want to make my own log book but never mind. I can use the official database to look at them, or the app on my phone, or the raw adi files. I think I’ll also move a copy to my blog to keep with the activation so it’s all together. Maybe in time I’ll figure out some system for the static blog generator to use the files and add a map or something to the end of the report.

I don’t want to but I might subscribe to QRZ’s xml API. This the lets you lookup peoples info in log books and automatically upload there. Would be nice to have my logbook get the right locators automatically. I’m just not sure I want to pay for this when it should be freely accessible, plus I feel like QRZ.com is a rip off but amateur radio people are stubborn, and won’t move to another platform.

But do I really care about others people’s locators and log books? I flip back and forth between not going to log to capture every minute detail and catalogue it perfectly.