I have been building a Discord bot called Elmar for the local Icelandic amateur radio community, mainly focusing on newly licensed amateurs. I’ve managed a Discord server for that group, inviting people taking the licensing course to join.
It started with a practical problem: helping newly licensed operators explore possible callsigns. It has since grown to include callsign lookups, local geomagnetic conditions and an estimate of the ionospheric critical frequency near Reykjavík.
The project repository is on GitHub: hrafnkelle/elmar-discord-bot.
My aim is to make a few useful pieces of information easy to ask for while we are already talking about radio. Discord’s slash commands provide a convenient interface, and keeping each feature small gives me room to investigate its data sources and limitations.
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