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

[Kayla Creamer]

Follow up. More info from Phil, W1PJE:

Hi all,

  Skip beat me to it - I've been otherwise occupied over the last 3 days or
I would have posted earlier.  You might know that I'm on the steering
committee for HamSCI, and the organizing committee for the (now virtual)
conference.  I highly recommend following Skip's advice if you can and
joining the workshop.  This is our 3rd year of the event, and the topics
and depth of coverage has seriously increased over that time with a really
high quality of presentation.  I'm going to argue here that this is now the
premier world event for amateur radio - science joint radio investigations,
bar none.

  For your convenience, the main conference page is here:

https://hamsci.org/hamsci2020

  The agenda is here:

https://hamsci.org/hamsci-2020-program

  Highlights: NVARC members might be very interested in hearing one of
several talks about the Personal Space Weather Station, a development
project being led by W2NAF under a major $1.4 million NSF Distributed
Arrays of Scientific Instruments (DASI) grant in conjunction with TAPR and
several major players.  You'll hear some initial thoughts about planning
for the next solar eclipse in April 2024 (coming up the US East Coast!).
Tim Duffy K3LR, the famous super-station contester, was supposed to be our
banquet keynote speaker but has converted to an online talk that I'm sure
will be very interesting.  And my colleague Jim LaBelle of Dartmouth
College, a world expert in the radio aurora, will be describing HF roars
and other strange auroral phenomena, along with David Halliday K2DH who
will talk about working QSOs on auroral forward scatter.

  You will also hear a talk by Gareth Perry (NJIT) on the "Golden Ears"
project in which humans are decoding ePOP satellite recordings of Field Day
CW transmissions -- all possible thanks to Bruce K1BG and Bob W1XP's
tireless efforts and hours spent with a pair of headphones.  This is a
direct NVARC science contribution at the national and international level.

  There's much more, but hopefully that's enough motivation.  Join us, and
help NVARC (and the community) continue pushing the frontiers of citizen
science investigations of the endlessly complex and interesting upper
atmosphere.

73
Phil W1PJE

PS: It's also important for HamSCI future work that we show a large
attendance for this online event, so there's some more motivation to join.



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Phil Erickson
phil.erickson at gmail.com


On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:36 PM Kayla Creamer <w2iry.kayla at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> 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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