HamSCI just completed its first ever multi-day field exercise, where two components of the Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS) were successfully installed at the world-class ham station K3LR in West Middlesex, PA. Students, professors, research associates and community volunteers were hosted for four days by station owner Tim Duffy, K3LR.
Tim Duffy, K3LR, is inviting the HamSCI community, including local schools and colleges, to a BBQ Picnic and HamSCI Meet & Greet on Wednesday, August 6th (1200 local time) at Tim's QTH in West Middlesex, PA. (RSVP required)
HamSCI has been prominently featured in the August 2025 issue of the ARRL's QST magazine, with fourteen pages of content, plus the issue's cover photo, devoted to our citizen science initiative.
A large HamSCI-led team recently made a field trip to Jenny Jump State Forest (NJ), surveying the United Astronomy Clubs of New Jersey (UACNJ) site. It is located on a rustic, park-like property, where the UACNJ hosts scientific instruments from many US-based institutions, including the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and HamSCI. The trip’s primary goals:
1) Assess maintenance needs of the existing Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS) equipment
HamSCI is preparing for a series of meteor scatter (MS) experiments later this year. The target storms are in August 11-12 (Perseids) and December 12-13 (Geminids). Preparation and testing are underway now. This is a combination 'special event' and a contest to generate contact data during meteor scatter events using 10 meters and 6 meters. A 'How To' guide and event rules are under development.
The raw data from a number of the 2023 and 2024 Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science events can now be found for viewing and downloading on Zenodo.org. No account or login information is required.
The following data sets have been made publicly available:
The space news for 27 December 2024 is asteroid 2024 YR4. It's heading this way, or at least roughly this way, with a current low estimated probability of Earth impact on December 22, 2032. That estimate will almost certainly be reduced by there won't be much data with which to do that until 2028.
The abstract submission window for the 2025 HamSCI Workshop, to be held at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, March 14-15, 2025, is now open. The abstract submission deadline, for both oral presentations and posters, is February 10, 2025. Abstracts can submitted via this link: 2025 Workshop Abstract Submission
