[SCCC] Asking ChatGPT for CQWW advice

[Paul Gacek]

Hi Clayton

ChatGPT is great.

However, you might want to consider two other approaches to interfacing to a frontier LLM.

Both are predicated on you mustering relevant information such as PDFs, web links etc. Once you’ve found a corpus of data then either;

A) Use LangChain to create a RAG ( Retrieval Augmented Gen) and feed it your collection of data
B) use NoteBookLM which is essentially a front end to a RAG based on Googles Gemini.

Once either of the above is done then ask questions about the contest and see what you get.

…..or as Bruce suggested seek advice of a real human!

Paul

> On Nov 17, 2025, at 8:53 AM, Bruce Horn <bhorn at hornucopia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Clayton,
> 
> Without spending a lot of time on the lengthy "analysis" ChatGPT produced, my observations are:
> 
> - the "strategy" it produced seems to be a regurgitation of published information about contesting, rather than specific to LP or to operating from S.Calif, but that's what I would expect since there wouldn't be much data it trained on that would be specific to your needs. LLMs never say "I don't know."
> 
> - the log analysis doesn't seem to reflect W6TK's log. Looks like Dick spent most of his time S&Ping, but ran for a couple of periods when his run rate exceeded his S&P rate. Overall, he averaged 33 Qs/hour based on his 3830scores posting, with an 82Q hour.
> 
> - you'd learn more about his log by using the K5KA/N6TV CBS log analysis tool than using ChatGPT.
> 
> - I suggest you ask Dick about his strategy, since he contested for many years from S.Calif before recently moving to Oregon.
> 
> 73 de Bruce, WA7BNM   (bhorn at hornucopia.com)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clayton Nall" <clayton.nall at gmail.com>
> To: "SCCC Reflector" <sccc at contesting.com>, "k5zd" <k5zd at cqww.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2025 8:06:56 PM
> Subject: [SCCC] Asking ChatGPT for CQWW advice
> 
> I’m planning a serious entry in CQWW CW in the LP classic overlay category
> at the UCSB club station. I asked ChatGPT to give me strategy advice.  I
> also fed it W6TK’a top-scoring log in the category and asked it to
> summarize.
> 
> Is this advice on point or yet another ChatGPT hallucination?
> 
> https://chatgpt.com/share/691a9ab6-6f24-8003-9ab1-048fe22577b2
> 
> 
> Clayton Nall
> http://www.nallresearch.com
> Cell: (617) 850-2062
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