SDR on W3MRB — Ham Radio & 3D Printinghttps://w3mrb.com/tags/sdr/Recent content in SDR on W3MRB — Ham Radio & 3D PrintingHugoenCopyright © 2026 Michael Bell (W3MRB).Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0400Teaching a Local LLM to Be My Elmerhttps://w3mrb.com/blog/2026/07/local-llm-elmer/Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://w3mrb.com/blog/2026/07/local-llm-elmer/An Elmer, in ham speak, is a mentor — the experienced operator who answers your dumb questions and gets you on the air. I’m lucky to have real ones. But I’m also an AI engineer with a rack of hardware running large language models in my house, so I’m running an experiment: can a local LLM be a useful second Elmer — a patient, always-available tutor for the Extra exam and the bench?

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