[bars] Fwd: [NVARC] While You're Bored This Weekend

[Kayla Creamer]

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all staying healthy. I received the below email from Skip,
K1NKR, via the NVARC listserve and thought it might be of interest to BARS
folks as well. If you're looking for something to do, the HamSCI conference
is going to be happening via the web this weekend. Details are in Skip's
email.

73,
Kayla
W2IRY


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From: Skip Youngberg via NVARC <nvarc at lists.n1nc.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 2:10 PM
Subject: [NVARC] While You're Bored This Weekend
To: nvarc at n1nc.org <nvarc at n1nc.org>


Remember the August eclipse a couple of years ago?

HamSCI, the Ham Radio Citizen Science Initiative was just getting off the
ground and NVARC was one of the major participants in the data taking that
surrounded it.  Recall, Stan spearheaded an effort in the club to put WSPR
stations on the air.  We (Phil, W1PJE, and I, plus a couple of researchers
from Haystack) reported on both the science and NVARC's participation to
the 2018 HamSCI workshop the following February.  There's a CQ article on
it at
https://hamsci.org/sites/default/files/publications/2018_HamSCI/201805_CQ_Moeseon_HamSCIMeeting.pdf
.

HamSCI has held workshops each year and this one will be held this coming
weekend.  No need to travel, though, because the 2020 HamSCI workshop will
be a virtual event.  Well, more like "real" in the sense that contradicts
virtual's first dictionary  meaning of "being such in essence or effect
though not formally recognized or admitted"-- but "virtual" in the sense
that it's taking place on-line.  The conference has been announced on the
ARRL web page:
http://www.arrl.org/news/hamsci-2020-workshop-retools-as-a-virtual-event.
The event can host around 100 active participants and well over a thousand
viewers.

There's a little work involved.  You have to *register online and install
client software* for an application called Zoom.

The conference will run 9:30 to 6:30 Friday and will continue Saturday
(10:00 to 6:00).  If you're not otherwise engaged in a contest, doing
"honey-dos," putting up an antenna, or providing communications for a
parade (not!) you might find it interesting.

73,
Skip
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