09/29/2023

ARRL is proud to partner with HamSCI to help promote participation in the Solar
Eclipse QSO Party (SEQP). SEQPs are a series of global experiments -- and you
can be a part of them. Solar eclipses will pass across the continental United
States on October 14, 2023, and April 8, 2024.

During these celestial events, you can join thousands of fellow amateurs as
part of the largest crowd-sourced event for ham radio scientific exploration.
The SEQP is part of the Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science and is for
learning more about how the ionosphere works.

All radio amateurs need to do is operate using any mode and any band for all or
part of the day, then upload their logs. Participation can be from anywhere;
you don't need to be near the path of the eclipse to contribute valuable data.
You don't even have to be a licensed ham to participate in the experiment (only
to transmit).

o For SEQP contest and rules, visit www.hamsci.org/contest-info[1].

o For information on the Gladstone Signal Spotting Challenge using CW,
WSPR, and FST4W, go to www.hamsci.org/contest-info[2].

o If you're an SWL or AM DXer, you might be interested in the Medium Wave
Recording Event. Go to www.hamsci.org/mw-recordings/[3] for more information.

Or just get on the air and help provide data to better understand the
ionosphere.

The first SEQP is on Saturday, October 14, 2023, from 1200 - 2200 UTC, and
participants may use any band or mode (except WARC bands). Researchers will
take the submitted logs and work to derive meaningful observations from the
data.

ARRL members can find out more about the SEQP by reading "The Solar Eclipse QSO
Party: A Fun Way to Support Radio Science" in the September/October 2023 issue
of On the Air magazine. The On the Air podcast will feature the article's
author, Gary Mikitin, AF8A, talking about the event. The episode will go live
on October 12.

[1] http://www.hamsci.org/contest-info
[2] http://www.hamsci.org/contest-info
[3] http://www.hamsci.org/mw-recordings/

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