NEWSLETTER VOL.1 NO.4
S AV E T H E D AT E MARCH 14 –15
2026
Welcome to the Q4 2025 Edition!
The 9th HamSCI workshop will be held from March 14–15, 2026 at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) and at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, CT. The workshop will be hosted by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) just a short distance away from the university. ARRL plans to offer a tour of its facilities and also provide an opportunity to operate historic W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station on site. The location is nearby to Bradley International Airport outside of Hartford but connections are also available from the New York and Boston airports. There are many hotels located conveniently nearby so check the HamSCI website for more details and registration information.
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The 2025 Q4 newsletter once again highlights the fantastic work that the HamSCI group has been doing in advancing both science and amateur radio. First up, the HamSCI group is extremely active in both amateur radio and professional conferences. This fall, the HamSCI team had booths at both the Northeast HamXPosition / ARRL New England Division convention in August 2025 in Marlboro, Massachusetts, and then again at the ARRL Rocky Mountain Convention in Grand Junction, Colorado. I was honored to give the banquet talk at the HamXPosition. At each of these conventions, HamSCI members met face-to-face with members of the greater amateur radio community and showed them the work we are doing.
We have many conventions coming up… Diego Sanchez KD2RLM and I will VY 73 de Nathaniel W2NAF both be speaking at the Radio Club of America Technical Symposium in November, and then we have ten HamSCI presentations at the December 2025 American Geophysical Union conference in New Orleans. This is a major professional conference that normally attracts over 25,000 scientists from around the globe. We are also preparing for the annual HamSCI workshop that will be held in March 2026, this year in partnership with the ARRL at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, CT, and the nearby Central Connecticut State University. HamSCI has also been doing amazing work on both the grants and publications front. Our own Dr. Kristina Collins KD8OXT just published a new python package for calculating geomagnetic conjugate points between hemispheres in the peer-reviewed journal Software-X, which you can read about in this issue of the newsletter, and even try it for yourself! Also, Dr. Kukkai Hozumi just had a major NASA Heliophysics grant selected that will allow us to advance the open-source PyLAP HF raytracing program used to study and predict HF radio propagation. We also cannot forget about our Meteor Scatter QSO Parties! We now have our science team busy analyzing the data from the August Perseids MSQP and invite you to get on the air for the December 13-14 Geminids! — Dr. Nathaniel Frissell, Ph.D. W2NAF
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