Solar Eclipse QSO Party Event / Expiriment

[UJay]

[FONT=&quot]The SEQP will take place on August 21, 2017 from 1400 – 2200 UTC.
Partial eclipse begins at about 1600 UTC in Oregon ends at about 2015 UTC in South Carolina.[/FONT]​

HF Bands-

http://www.hamsci.org/seqp

http://www.hamsci.org/node/122

 

[blindfire]

I'll be running WISPR during the event.

Should be interesting to see what happens

 

[UJay]

What bands are you thinking?

I will likely be CW...... Going to see what the action is and the fact we can work dupes after 10 min- Just looked can use FT8 or 'JT type modes' so the weaker signals and essentially catalogging on all signals heard in the bandpass could be helpful, but no room 6 digit grid-

Probably 40 / 20 will be the most active for the day.

The real signal report would be pia on CW, but all for the good of the study.

 

[UJay]

Seems like activity and interest is building with more than 600 stations registered;
http://www.hamsci.org/article/more-600-stations-registered-seqp

 

[UJay]

https://contestonlinescore.com/scoreboard/?contest_id=18

There are a few stations reporting for the event.

We my switch to High Power if things are slow. But will be covering 2 bands at a time ~ 14040, 21040 and 28040-

More interesting info;
http://spaceweather.com/

 

[UJay]

All band CW Low Power .

QSOs Pts Grd Pt/Q
349 698 166 2.0
Score: 115,868