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The Ham radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS) project aims to create a geographically distributed, multi-instrument system capable of making ground-based measurements of the space environment. The PSWS is designed to be affordable and customizable, with heterogeneous instruments each capable of sensing a different aspect of the geospace environment; it is also meant to be interesting for volunteer citizen scientists, especially members of the amateur (ham) radio community, while also generating observations that will be utilized by space science researchers.
The PSWS project is a joint endeavor between professional researchers and volunteer citizen scientists and is motivated by questions from both communities:
Science Questions
- How does the ionosphere respond to inputs from space and from the neutral atmosphere?
- How does the ionosphere couple with the neutral atmosphere and with space?
- What are the sources of medium and large scale traveling ionospheric disturbances?
- What are the causes of Sporadic E?
Amateur Radio Questions
- How do disturbances such as solar flares, geomagnetic storms, and traveling ionospheric disturbances affect radio wave propagation?
- How does ionospheric science help amateur radio operators improve communications?
- How can I make measurements in my own backyard that will help improve my amateur radio operations?
This project is led by the The University of Scranton, in collaboration with the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio, Inc. (TAPR), Case Western Reserve University, the University of Alabama, the New Jersey Institute of Technology Center for Solar Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory, as a part of Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation.