Via the RAC: NASA Seeks Help from Amateurs during Solar Eclipses

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Members of the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) will be making radio contacts during the 2023 and 2024 North American eclipses, probing the Earth’s ionosphere.

It will be a fun, friendly event with a competitive element – and you’re invited to participate.

Both amateur and professional broadcasters have been sending and receiving radio signals around the Earth for over a century. Such communication is possible due to interactions between our Sun and the ionosphere, the ionized region of the Earth’s atmosphere located roughly 80 to 1000 km overhead.

Read more – Radio Amateurs of Canada
https://www.rac.ca/nasa-seeks-help-from-amateurs-during-solar-eclipses/
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