[CQ-Contest] QSOs for science

[David Siddall]

Keep making all those contest QSOs for science.  73, Dave K3ZJ

"Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (*HamSCI
<http://www.hamsci.org/>*) founder
Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF — an assistant professor in The University of
Scranton’s Physics and Engineering Department — has been awarded a $481,260
grant through the NASA Space Weather Applications Operations Phase II
Research Program. Frissell will serve as principal investigator for a
research project entitled, “Enabling Space Weather Research with Global
Scale Amateur Radio Datasets.” He’ll collaborate with Philip Erickson,
W1PJE, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory
and Bill Engelke, AB4EJ, at the University of Alabama.

... the grant will fund “the development of an empirical model for the
prediction of traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) in high-frequency
radio communications while investigating the geophysical drivers of these
disturbances.” The grant will cover 2 years of work.

Frissell said that the predictive, empirical TID models will be
developed  using
data collected by the Reverse Beacon Network, WSPR, and PSKreporter —
automated, global-scale radio communication observation networks operated
by the amateur radio community. Undergraduate students will help the
faculty researchers to create algorithms used for the model development."

excerpted from ARRL news item:
http://www.arrl.org/news/hamsci-founder-nathaniel-frissell-w2naf-awarded-481-260-nasa-research-grant