SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX008
ARLX008 Solar Eclipse QSO Party Signup So Far Has Attracted More Than 250
Eclipse Enthusiasts

ZCZC AX08
QST de W1AW
Special Bulletin 8  ARLX008
> From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT  August 15, 2017
To all radio amateurs

SB SPCL ARL ARLX008
ARLX008 Solar Eclipse QSO Party Signup So Far Has Attracted More Than 250
Eclipse Enthusiasts

The Solar Eclipse QSO Party (SEQP) now is just under a week away - Monday,
August 21 - and more than 250 radio amateurs in the US and elsewhere already
have signed up to take part. The SEQP is a special operating event organized by
the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI), led by Nathaniel
Frissell, W2NAF, to study ionospheric effects caused by the total solar
eclipse. Event rules and operating procedures are available on the HamSCI
website at, http://hamsci.org/seqp .

During the SEQP, hams are being asked to operate on the HF bands in a manner
similar to a contest or QSO party. HamSCI researchers want to know where you
plan to be during the eclipse and what modes you plan to operate. Visit the
SEQP Pre-Registration page at, http://hamsci.org/seqp-prereg .

The experiment will take advantage of such systems as the Reverse Beacon
Network, (RBN), PSKReporter, and WSPRNet, and participants' logs will provide
contact and spot data that researchers at the New Jersey Institute of
Technology and at Virginia Tech will use to study eclipse-induced ionospheric
effects.

NNNN
/EX

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it
wrong...
... Confucius Say: To make egg roll, push it.
---