I did this for the great American eclipse. It's fun. But my radio eventually shut down because of over temperature as the fpga and ADCs were running at full capacity and I did not have the A/C running at home. Dr. Frissell (W2NAF) is a pretty cool character. He learned about ham radio from one of my club members - Greg Nitkowski, N2BSA. This was also featured in a hackaday article: https://hackaday.com/2020/11/30/gathering-eclipse-data-via-ham-radio/ They feature ham radio from time to time, as some of their reporters/bloggers (eg. Jenny List) are hams. 73 Ria, N2RJ 73 Ria, N2RJ On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 8:16 PM Rod Stafford <w6rod@comcast.net> wrote:
FYI.
Amateur Radio W6ROD ARRL Int’l Affairs Vice President
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From: IARU REGION 2 <region2iaru@gmail.com> Date: November 30, 2020 at 10:39:38 AM PST To: IARU REGION 2 <IARU-R2-News@lists.kkn.net> Subject: [IARU-R2-News 939] Opportunity to Participate in Eclipse Propagation Experiment
HamSCI (www.hamsci.org) is looking for amateur radio operators to help with a global campaign observing the ionospheric effects of the December 14 eclipse across South America. Data collection requires an HF radio connected to a computer. To participate, tune your most stable RF receiver to a 10 MHz time standard station, tune down 1 kHz so that you hear the station's carrier signal, and follow the instructions on the HamSCI website to make a recording of the signals you hear. Record and upload as much as you can the week of December 9th through December 16th, and researchers will use your data to make a more complete picture of the ionosphere during this space weather event. Instructions are available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. There will be 24-hour practice run on December 5.
The Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) is a collective of geospace scientists and ham radio operators dedicated to the advancement of science through amateur radio. (You can join the mailing list here.) The December 2020 Eclipse Festival is a pilot experiment for HamSCI's Personal Space Weather Station project, which is an NSF-supported effort to build a distributed network of geospace instruments hosted by ham radio operators and other citizen scientists.
Details of the eclipse experiment may be found here: https://hamsci.org/december-2020-eclipse-festival-frequency-measurement
Interested operators should sign up at this link (https://forms.gle/C9PFSTeLf7xvCQDYA) or directly contact Kristina Collins at kd8oxt@case.edu.
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