Greetings, MARC Members and Friends of MARC!
Once again it is time for our "advanced topics" class. Please join us
on Thursday, 10 March 2022, at 6:30 PM. As usual, we will be meeting at
the Murray Fire Station #81, located at 4848 S Box Elder St (about 35 W).
The class this week will be a replay of the RATPAC session from 2 March
2022. Yes, I have previewed this presentation and found it very
interesting and engaging (unlike our last RATPAC experience). The topic
of the presentation is "HamSCI: Ham Radio Science Citizen
Investigation, Measuring the Ionosphere with Amateur Radio" and was
presented by Dr. Nathaniel Frissell (W2NAF) of the University of
Scranton. Dr. Frissell is a Space Physicist and Electrical Engineer,
and he will be talking about how the ionosphere works, how signals are
propagated, how space weather affects them, and other related topics.
If you have ever wondered how exactly HF radio manages to reach around
the world and why the bands are sometimes open and other times closed,
you will want to see this presentation. As a university professor, Dr.
Frissell actually knows how to teach!
After the presentation, we will play around with the live data on the
Reverse Beacon Network, WSPR Net (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter), and
PSK Reporter web sites.
I have also paid for a personal Zoom account, so I will once again be
sharing the presentation over Zoom. The Zoom link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84298393258?pwd=MnNLMlQ1Yk9BV3NvV09wNkE5M0Fadz09
Meeting ID: 842 9839 3258
Passcode: amateur
If you need a dial-in number and numeric passcode for phone audio, let
me know and I'll send it to you. If you would like an invite to the
Google Calendar event, I can send you that, too on request.
Also, don't forget to join us prior to the meeting at 6:00 PM on 233.440
MHz simplex (no PL or offset) for a brief check-in only net. As usual,
this very quick no-traffic net is for us to experiment with various
frequencies, bands, and settings on our radios to confirm that we can
get in touch with each other in emergency situations when our normal
repeater might not be available.
Hope to see you all there!
73 de KD7ZWV
-jan-
--
Jan L. Peterson
http://www.peterson-tech.com/~jlp/
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