Come and attend this exciting talk by Dhiru Kholia, VU3CER, and Bradshaw Lupton, K1TE, entitled “Extending FT8 via OpenAI Android and IOS app generation” at the 2026 Northeast HamXposition.
Their work—developing Android, iOS, and FT8/WSPR applications with ChatGPT as a supervised development partner—focuses on the controlled and thoughtful use of AI tools to extend today’s digital ecosystem, treating AI not as a replacement for human judgment, but as a managed instrument for accelerating understanding, experimentation, and responsible software design.
Dhiru Kholia was first licensed as VU3CER in 2019. He received a BE degree in Electronics & Telecommunication from Pune University in 2006. He then pursued a career in software security engineering with various MNC firms. He became interested in electronics again after a long gap due to his growing passion for hardware security. Besides amateur radio, he enjoys table tennis, chess, releasing miscellaneous projects on GitHub, and reverse-engineering software and hardware stuff.
Bradshaw Lupton, K1TE, was licensed as WA2IVF in 1968. He was an engineer at Honeywell and Polaroid for 33 years, and a physics and chemistry teacher in the Boston area for 11 years. Bradshaw advises the Sandwich STEM Academy and has developed WSPR/FT8 STEM classes for the Chatham Marconi RCA museum. His STEM students are learning the power of WSJTX digital with 3.3v and 1/100 watt making it, occasionally, from Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts to Melbourne, Australia.