{"id":59393,"date":"2024-04-01T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59393"},"modified":"2024-04-01T07:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T11:55:26","slug":"only-one-week-to-go-hamsci-presents-the-solar-eclipse-qso-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/only-one-week-to-go-hamsci-presents-the-solar-eclipse-qso-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Only One Week To Go: HamSCI Presents the Solar Eclipse QSO Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Edward Efchak, who shares the following announcement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59394\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HamSci-Eclipse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HamSci-Eclipse.jpg 567w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HamSci-Eclipse-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1><b>ONE WEEK TO GO!\u00a0 SAVE THE DATE!!<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b>Monday, April 8<\/b><b>TH<\/b><b>!!\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>HamSCI Presents <\/b><b><i>the Solar Eclipse QSO Party<\/i><\/b><b> \u2013 April 8<\/b><b>, <\/b><b>2024<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Join with thousands of your fellow amateurs as part of the largest crowd-sourced event for ham radio scientific exploration ever!\u00a0 The <i>SEQP<\/i> is part of <i>The Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science<\/i> and is for learning more about how the ionosphere works. Use any mode, any band for all or part of the day!\u00a0 <i>Participation can be from everywhere<\/i> \u2013 you need not be near the path of the eclipse to contribute valuable data by participating.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you a contester? For details on the <i>SEQP<\/i> contest and rules go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamsci.org\/contest-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.hamsci.org\/contest-info<\/a>.\u00a0 Don\u2019t forget to send in your log!<\/li>\n<li>For the <i>Gladstone Signal Spotting Challenge<\/i> using CW, WSPR and FST4W modes go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamsci.org\/contest-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.hamsci.org\/contest-info<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re an SWL or AM DX\u2019er, there is <i>The Medium Wave Recording Event<\/i> for you as well!\u00a0 Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamsci.org\/mw-recordings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.hamsci.org\/mw-recordings\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or just <b>get on the air<\/b> and help provide the data to better understand the ionosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Save the date \u2013 Monday, 8 April 2024<\/p>\n<p>Get on the air! 1400-2400 UTC<\/p>\n<p>Do it for science!! Any band\/any mode (except the WARC bands)<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0through amateur radio activities and encourage the development of new technologies to support this research.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about HamSCI, please visit the HamSCI website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamsci.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.hamsci.org<\/a>) . For more information about the Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science educational opportunities for the amateur community and the public please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/hamsci.org\/eclipse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information pages.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Edward Efchak, who shares the following announcement: ONE WEEK TO GO!\u00a0 SAVE THE DATE!! Monday, April 8TH!!\u00a0\u00a0 HamSCI Presents the Solar Eclipse QSO Party \u2013 April 8, 2024 Join with thousands of your fellow amateurs as part of the largest crowd-sourced event for ham radio scientific exploration ever!\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,433,3,43],"tags":[10463,6344],"class_list":["post-59393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-2024-solar-eclipse","tag-hamsci"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-frX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59178,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/2024-eclipse-hamsci-roundtable-events\/","url_meta":{"origin":59393,"position":0},"title":"2024 Eclipse: HamSCI Roundtable Events","author":"Thomas","date":"March 9, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed Efchak (WX2R), who shares the following announcement: The Solar Eclipse Is One Month Away! 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