A bit OT, and this is kinda like using a CW decoder, but the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has an phone app, BirdNet. which listens and will identify birds by their calls. When started, it displays a waterfall display of sound, you drag brackets to surround the call in time, submit it, and it identifies the bird. It works amazing well in the wild on calls you might think not loud enough to be captured. I tried submitting whistling or talking and it correctly identified the distinctly non-avian species.
https://birdnet.cornell.edu/ On Saturday, March 13, 2021, 8:59:41 PM MST, kevinr <kev...@coho.net> wrote: Good Evening, The week began with wet weather. Perfect for an net search to follow a hint by K0DTJ. Brian mentioned the Merlin phone app, which helps you identify birds. https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org Part of it is sound files. Deeper digging got me to https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/guide-to-bird-sounds/ which had exactly the sound files I wanted. $20 for over 4000 sound files from 900 species of birds in Canada, the US, Mexico, and parts of South America. It is interesting to notice the regional dialects of a species. The local Pileated Woodpecker population may not understand the call from their Carolina cousins. This summer I will put a few speakers out this window and see who I can attract. Last night the Saw Whet owls woke me up. Maybe I should play their tune during the daytime :) One small sunspot is showing, while the auroral oval is stronger than last week. Flux is at 77 sfu. I expect more noise with deeper QSB. However, you never can tell until you try. I took a hike to check the growth on the thinned trees. Along the way I tightened the guy lines to my antennas. The winter winds had pulled them upward on the shrubs they were holding. When the weather turns sunny again I will trim the central tree of dead branches. That will let me raise the antenna about twenty feet. Then I can test how it works when it is not behind a wall of soil. Luckily that is on the western side; off to the east the way is open well into Washington. On a clear day that is where Mt. St. Helens would appear. Notice the time change. Same sun angles as last week just one hour later on our normal clock. Please join us on (or near): 14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday) 7047 kHz at 0000z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday) 73, Kevin. KD5ONS - They took me down the grading station And they classified me zed 'Cause of over population They told me that I would soon be dead But I slipped out of the force field And hid beneath the monorail But the automatic blood hounds Lord, they're soon hot along my trail Now if I had been a scholar With computer working hard Then my molecular structure Would not be on the grader's card So, I know that they will get me Put my index in the brain Then, the atoms of my body Will be disposed of, Lordy, down the drain ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to louand...@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
