Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation

Advance scientific research and understanding through amateur radio activities.
Encourage the development of new technologies to support this research.
Provide educational opportunities for the amateur community and the general public.

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The HamSCI Community is led by The University of Scranton Department of Physics and Engineering W3USR, in collaboration with Case Western Reserve University W8EDU, the University of Alabama, the New Jersey Institute of Technology Center for Solar Terrestrial Physics K2MFF, the MIT Haystack Observatory, TAPR, additional collaborating universities and institutions, and volunteer members of the amateur radio and citizen science communities. We are grateful for the financial support of the United States National Science FoundationNASA, and Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC).

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QST magazine cover, August, 2025

HamSCI has been prominently featured in the August 2025 issue of the ARRL's QST magazine, with fourteen pages of content, plus the issue's cover photo, devoted to our citizen science initiative.

HamSCI Members at Jenny Jump NJ

A large HamSCI-led team recently made a field trip to Jenny Jump State Forest (NJ), surveying the United Astronomy Clubs of New Jersey (UACNJ) site.  It is located on a rustic, park-like property, where the UACNJ hosts scientific instruments from many US-based institutions, including the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and HamSCI. The trip’s primary goals:

1) Assess maintenance needs of the existing Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS) equipment

The Radio Society of Great Britain*, at its April, 2025 Annual General Meeting, continued its tradition of announcing the previous years' winners of the RSGB Trophies.

Two well known members of HamSCI were awarded trophies for 2024: