HamSCI Featured in QST Magazine

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.  Thanks to the generosity of the ARRL, the cover and the special section can be read here, on the HamSCI website.

The special section begins with articles by Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF on the background behind HamSCI, and Drs. Ethan Miller K8GU and Frissell on traveling ionospheric disturbances. The section continues with highlights of presentations given at the 2025 HamSCI workshop held in March at New Jersey Institute of Technology. These highlights include Gary Mikitin AF8A on Expanding the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station network,  Dr. V. Lynn Harvey on the role of the polar vortex in atmospheric-ionospheric coupling, Steve Cerwin WA5FRF on radio wave propagation and antenna fundamentals, Mindy J. Hull KM1NDY on an overview of the HamSCI workshop poster session, Owen Ruzanski KD3ALD on the development of a contesting and DXing dashboard, McKenzie Denton KO4GLN on the upcoming HamSCI Meteor Scatter QSO Party (MSQP), and Steve Stroh N8GNJ/Martin Alcock VE6VH on the IP400 networking, and many others. 

“We at HamSCI are both honored and excited to collaborate with the ARRL on the advancement of both radio and science. The ARRL and its membership already has more than a century-long tradition of radio science innovation; it is wonderful to have the opportunity to build on that and carry it forward” said HamSCI founder Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF upon publication.

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. HamSCI receives financial support from the United States National Science Foundation, NASA, the Amateur Radio Digital Communications foundation (ARDC), the Yasme Foundation, and the Frankford Radio Club.

*The print version of QST contains 14 pages, while the digital version, available to ARRL members, has bonus content, totaling 18 pages.