<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><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">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">nvarc@n1nc.org</a> <<a href="mailto:nvarc@n1nc.org">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;display:inline!important;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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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