Topband: OT: Studying the ionosphere using RBN

[Jim]

Why waste time and energy with RBN stuff. We have the tool that does 90% of the work for us an no one uses it because it is digital. WHISPER is the perfect tool. If everyone would put their SSB transmitter a WHISPER frequency for 24 yrs before and after the eclipse we would have more data than anyone could ever want. Then all you have to do is download the data and start crunching with a computer program or manually... whichever is your to your liking. If this were done over the entire world you could filter out what you didnt want or even see how the propagation on the other side of the planet was during the eclipse. 

If you have not looked at this program... it was written by Nobel Laureate ( Physics ) Joe Taylor K1JT here is the web site: 
http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wspr.html 


Jim 

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Message: 1 
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 20:24:03 -0400 
From: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy at gmail.com> 
To: Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> 
Cc: "Topband at contesting. com" <Topband at contesting.com> 
Subject: Re: Topband: OT: Studying the ionosphere using RBN 


This sounds really interesting. Should be able to ramp up a mob of activity 
for that. 160 up through VHF. Be very interesting to see if edge of eclipse 
is a propagation enhancer. 

Too bad eclipse isn't ten days later on Field Day. That would be a flood of 
data for free. 

We'll start talking this one up. Reserving a vacation day to operate. 

Also may need a module in N1MM to match the science questions and rules. 

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Robert McGwier <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> wrote: 

> During the eclipse next year we will undertake a ham radio based study of 
> the Ionosphere using RBN. 
> 
> http://hamsci.org/article/hamsci-eclipse-team-meets-dayton 
> 
> 73s 
> N4HY 
> 
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