Cdn Amateurs invited to participate in solar eclipse project

[Richard VE3OZW]

Only One Week To Go: HamSCI Presents the Solar Eclipse QSO Party!
https://www.rac.ca/hamsci-presents-the-solar-eclipse-qso-party-april-8-2024/
Join with thousands of your fellow Amateurs as part of the largest crowd-sourced event for ham radio scientific exploration ever!
The SEQP is part of The Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science and is for learning more about how the ionosphere works. Use any mode, any band for all or part of the day! 
Participation can be from everywhere – you need not be near the path of the eclipse to contribute valuable data by participating.

• Are you a contester? For details on the SEQP contest and rules go to www.hamsci.org/contest-info.  Don’t forget to send in your log!
  
• For the Gladstone Signal Spotting Challenge using CW, WSPR and FST4W modes go to www.hamsci.org/contest-info.
  
• If you’re an SWL or AM DX’er, there is The Medium Wave Recording Event for you as well!  Go to www.hamsci.org/mw-recordings/.
  

Or just get on the air and help provide the data to better understand the ionosphere.

• Save the date – Monday, 8 April 2024
  
• Get on the air! 1400-2400 UTC
  
• Do it for science!! Any band/any mode (except the WARC bands)
  

HamSCI serves as a means for fostering collaboration between professional researchers and Amateur Radio operators. It assists in developing and maintaining standards and agreements between all people and organizations involved. Its goals are to advance scientific research and understanding through Amateur Radio activities and encourage the development of new technologies to support this research.

• For more information about HamSCI, please visit the HamSCI website (www.hamsci.org).
  
• For more information about the Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science educational opportunities for the amateur community and the public please visit our information pages.
  

Canadian Amateurs Invited to Participate in Solar Eclipse Project in April 2024
https://www.rac.ca/canadian-amateurs-invited-to-participate-in-solar-eclipse-project/
"The Case Amateur Radio Club W8EDU of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio is excited to invite Canadian Amateurs to participate in our upcoming eclipse research project!"
 
 
Attention all Canadian Amateurs:
The following item is courtesy of the Case Amateur Radio Club:
The Case Amateur Radio Club would like to invite you to participate in the CHU Eclipse Data Collection Project!
We will be monitoring the reception of the Canadian time standard CHU before, during, and after the eclipse to measure the recombination time of the ionosphere. In other words, we know that the ionosphere changes in response to the presence of UV radiation in the sun by ionizing during the day and ‘de-ionizing’ at night (which is why many frequency bands propagate differently during the day and the night).
We understand how the ionosphere changes over a normal 24-hour period in response to the relatively slow transition from daytime to night time, but want to learn more about how it changes over a much shorter period (which is what the eclipse provides). We want you to help!
Our goal is to study how the eclipse affects radio wave propagation, helping us understand the ionosphere’s recombination time. To achieve this, we need your help recording Canada’s time standard station CHU for two weeks surrounding the April 8 eclipse. Anyone with a KiwiSDR or a rig capable of interfacing with analysis/recording software like Fldigi is encouraged to join the effort!
This project has already garnered enthusiastic support from various communities, including the American Radio Relay League, the Radio Amateurs of Canada, and the Ham Radio Citizen Science Investigation HamSCI. 
We have over 20 stations across the continent participating, from universities and high schools to representatives from the Radio Amateurs of Canada and even a station in Mexico!
To join us and contribute valuable data, simply visit our website and follow the instructions (https://w8edu.wordpress.com/chu-eclipse-data-collection/) to set up your station and notify us about your participation.
Please reach out to eclipse-research@case.edu if you have any questions or comments. – 73,
Adam Goodman W7OKE, President, Case Amateur Radio Club
David Kazdan AD8Y, MD, PhD, Faculty Advisor, Case Amateur Radio Club
Chistian Zorman, PhD, Faculty Advisor, Case Amateur Radio Club, Associate Dean for Research, Case School of Engineering
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