[CQ-Contest] Please remember the scientific experiment August 21

[Hank Greeb]

For anyone not working during those hours, please partake of the Solar 
Eclipse QSO Party, 21 Aug 2017 1400 – 2200 UTC

This gives us amateur radio operators a great opportunity to participate 
in a scientific experiment.  The thesis is "Lack of Solar Radiation 
during an eclipse will affect the ionosphere enough to be observable 
during the period of partial and total eclipse of he sun."  The more 
information provided by amateur radio operators, the better the quality 
of these data.

Rules are at http://hamsci.org/about-hamsci

Note that the majority of the data will be from the reversed beacon 
network, though "real" signal reports from individuals will be useful.  
This means that the usual "RST 5NN" won't be of much use in the SENTRST 
and RECDRST blanks, but qualitative and quantitative signal strength 
data will be useful.

So, pleast get on a send CQ SEQP or CQ TEST or CQ URCALL and provide 
these data for the RBN.  This will help prove or disprove the thesis of 
the experiment. Also report your "real RST" results  -- N1MM+, W3KM, and 
other logging software provides methods for over riding the "refilled 
RST 599" boxes.    Please report your best estimate of ERP along with a 
cabrillo file.

72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of the time