The Orlando HamCation has recently announced that Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF, Tony Milluzzi KD8RTT, and Ambarish Nag Biswas VU2JFA are the 2026 recipients of its HamCation Awards.
Dr. Frissell is the recipient of the 2026 Carole Perry Educator of the Year Award. The award recognizes his outstanding work with the HamSCI education program he created, grew, and continues to expand.
The complete results for the August 11-12, 2025 running of the Meteor Scatter QSO Party (MSQP) have been published. They contain participants' scores, event statistics and a sampling of soapbox comments. Finally, credits appear for those who helped make the MSQP possible.
Dr. Kristina Collins KD8OXT, Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF, Angel Vasquez WP3R, and Tim Duffy K3LR
Honored By the Radio Club of America at Upcoming Symposium
ARDC (Amateur Radio Digital Communications) has announced their 2026 funding priorities along with the deadline for grant applications (1-Feb-2026).
As members of the HamSCI and amateur radio communities may already be aware, the mission of Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) is to support, promote, and enhance digital communication and broader communication science and technology, to promote Amateur Radio, scientific research, experimentation, education, development, open access, and innovation in information and communication technology.
HamSCI made its first ever appearance at the 2025 HamCon Colorado/ARRL Rocky Mountain Division Convention, held 24-26 October, in Grand Junction, Colorado.
HamSCI hopes to have many stations participate in the upcoming (12-13 December, 2025) Meteor Scatter QSO Party. As with any astronomic activity (especially one that peaks over just a 1 to 2 day period) it helps to be prepared. HamSCI suggests that future MSQP participants practice making QSOs and/or receiving pings from the meteoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere. Three upcoming showers/practice opportunities are listed the table below.
HamSCI was well represented at the 2025 Northeast HamXposition, held 21-24 August, in Marlborough (Boston), Massachusetts. Our booth attracted many visitors armed with questions and a strong fascination for what we do. The booth featured working GRAPE receivers of various 'flavors' (GRAPE 1, GRAPE 1 DRF and GRAPE 2), a live display of the new SDR PSWS installation at K3LR plus an array of posters highlighting both past and active experiments. Overall awareness of our HamSCI efforts appears to be getting better and better!
HamSCI just completed its first ever multi-day field exercise, where two components of the Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS) were successfully installed at the world-class ham station K3LR in West Middlesex, PA. Students, professors, research associates and community volunteers were hosted for four days by station owner Tim Duffy, K3LR.
Tim Duffy, K3LR, is inviting the HamSCI community, including local schools and colleges, to a BBQ Picnic and HamSCI Meet & Greet on Wednesday, August 6th (1200 local time) at Tim's QTH in West Middlesex, PA. (RSVP required)
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.
