<div dir="ltr">Follow up. More info from Phil, W1PJE:<div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div> 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.</div><div><br></div><div> For your convenience, the main conference page is here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://hamsci.org/hamsci2020" target="_blank">https://hamsci.org/hamsci2020</a><br></div><div><br></div><div> The agenda is here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://hamsci.org/hamsci-2020-program" target="_blank">https://hamsci.org/hamsci-2020-program</a><br></div><div><br></div><div> 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.</div><div><br></div><div> 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.</div><div><br></div><div> 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.</div><div><br></div><div>73</div><div>Phil W1PJE</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail-adm" style="margin:5px 0px"><div id="gmail-q_349" class="gmail-ajR gmail-h4" style="background-color:rgb(232,234,237);border:none;clear:both;line-height:6px;outline:none;width:24px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:11px;border-radius:5.5px"><div class="gmail-ajT" style="background:url("https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system/2x/more_horiz_black_20dp.png") 50% 50%/20px no-repeat;height:11px;opacity:0.7;width:24px"></div></div></div></div><font color="#888888">--<br><div dir="ltr">----<br>Phil Erickson<br><a href="mailto:phil.erickson@gmail.com" target="_blank">phil.erickson@gmail.com</a></div></font><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:36 PM Kayla Creamer <<a href="mailto:w2iry.kayla@gmail.com" target="_blank">w2iry.kayla@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>73,</div><div>Kayla</div><div>W2IRY</div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Skip Youngberg via NVARC</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:nvarc@lists.n1nc.org" target="_blank">nvarc@lists.n1nc.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 2:10 PM<br>Subject: [NVARC] While You're Bored This Weekend<br>To: <a href="mailto:nvarc@n1nc.org" target="_blank">nvarc@n1nc.org</a> <<a href="mailto:nvarc@n1nc.org" target="_blank">nvarc@n1nc.org</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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 <a href="https://hamsci.org/sites/default/files/publications/2018_HamSCI/201805_CQ_Moeseon_HamSCIMeeting.pdf" target="_blank">https://hamsci.org/sites/default/files/publications/2018_HamSCI/201805_CQ_Moeseon_HamSCIMeeting.pdf</a>.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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 "<span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(48,51,54);text-transform:none;line-height:22px;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:0.2px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-stretch:normal;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline">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: <a href="http://www.arrl.org/news/hamsci-2020-workshop-retools-as-a-virtual-event" target="_blank">http://www.arrl.org/news/hamsci-2020-workshop-retools-as-a-virtual-event</a>. The event can host around 100 active participants and well over a thousand viewers.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
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