MOVE USA SEP 2026 Tech Talk - AI in Amateur Radio Disaster Responses

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This talk looks at AI in amateur radio not as a hobbyist curiosity, but through the lens of MOVE's own recent deployments. Starting with Hurricane Helene's response in Asheville, NC, we'll walk through concrete “what if AI had been in the loop?” scenarios; from pre-positioning trucks using signal-outage data, to cutting through RF noise with deep-learning tools, to triaging urgent welfare-check traffic. We'll ground each scenario in real, citable techniques: an IEEE-published noise-suppression framework, and peer-reviewed machine-learning work from HamSCI (covered in QST) on detecting ionospheric disturbances. We'll also look at a second deployment: the LA wildfires, and at something that isn't hypothetical at all: MOVE's own 2025–26 Truck Data Science Challenge, which is already applying anomaly detection to the club's fleet telemetry. The talk closes with an open discussion: where is AI operationally ready for a real deployment today, and where does it still need to earn trust?


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  • Co-sponsored by IEEE-USA MOVE Program
  • Starts 20 September 2026 04:00 AM UTC
  • Ends 23 September 2026 12:45 AM UTC
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Joseph Kasser

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Joseph Kasser is an active amateur radio operator. I received my first call sign G8BTB more than 50 years ago, and after upgrading to G3ZCZ also operated briefly as ON8IK, F0WN and W8/G3ZCZ, and then for many years as W3/G3ZCZ, 4X/G3ZCZ, and 9V1CZ. I currently operate VK5WU. I have a history of experimentation and innovation, including:

 

·   Designing a hardware-based Self Operating Radioteletypwriter Contest Amateur Radio Station (SORCARS ) in 1972 and programming it into LanLink years later. The QSO machine performed unassisted (but not unattended) in the 1990 ARRL RTTY contest, and did not come last in its section! This was the first and so far the only legal automatic robot contest station in ARRL contests.

·   Being one of the initial group of experimenters to receive a special permit from the US Federal Communications Commission to transmit and receive ASCII over the air when packet radio and other modern digital modes were not even a gleam in their experimenters’ eyes.

·    Claiming the first OSCAR contact from a vehicle in motion when Art Feller, W4ART, and I communicated via AMSAT-OSCAR 6 while driving through Silver Spring in suburban Maryland, which is about 10 miles up the road from the White House.

·    Claiming the first remote computer-controlled station contest operation when I operated W4/G3ZCZ using VOIP via the Internet from VK5 in the ARRL 2001 SSB Sweepstakes contest.

·     Adding Artificial Intelligence in the form of ‘Elmer’ (an Expert system) to my LanLink software in or around 1994. Elmer was based on a state machine and could hold limited conversations depending on its knowledge base. It was designed to be used via packet radio; however, the widespread adoption of the Internet quickly made this implementation of Elmer obsolete.