Personal Space Weather Station

The Personal Space Weather Station project ultimately aims to create a small, multi-instrument system that can make ground-based measurements of the space environment. The observations from this project will not only be useful to the owner of the system, but also aggregated into a central database for space science and space weather research purporses. Initial work focuses on the development of a scientific-grade high frequency (HF) radio receiver, as well as the necessary software and network infrastructure. This project is led by the New Jersey Institute of Technology Center for Solar Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) in collaboration with the Massachusettes Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory and the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio, Inc. (TAPR).

Get Involved

Want to be involved? Most development is currently taking place through the TAPR TangerineSDR project, a software designed radio project that is supporting the PSWS.

Join the TangerineSDR Listserv.
Participate in the Monday Night 9 PM Eastern Time TangerineSDR TeamSpeak Telecons.
- Download and Run TeamSpeak.
- Server: teamspeak.tangerineSDR.com:7388
- Password: PlayRadio
- Switch to room "TangerineSDR"
Specific questions can be directed to Nathaniel, W2NAF at hamsci@hamsci.org.
hamsci.org Working Page

Articles

The Personal Space Weather Station by Ward Silver, N0AX
- QST, April 2018, Reprinted with Permission

Presentations

Science Questions for a Personal Space Weather Station by Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF
- HamSCI Workshop, CWRU, Cleveland, OH, March 2019
Personal Space Weather Station Overview by Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF
- HamSCI Workshop, NJIT, Newark NJ, February 2018
TAPR Sunday Seminar by Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF
- TAPR Digital Communications Conference, Albuquerque, NM, September 2018
- PDF of Slides

2020 HamSCI Workshop Registration Open

Monday, February 3, 2020 - 14:22

Submitted 3 weeks 3 days ago by w2naf.

By Stan Zygmunt, University of Scranton

Registration is now open for the third annual HamSCI Workshop. The 2020 HamSCI Workshop for amateur radio operators and professional scientists will be held Friday and Saturday, March 20-21, at The University of Scranton. The theme of the workshop is “The Auroral Connection,” and will include addresses by guest speakers, poster presentations and demonstrations of relevant instrumentation and software. All ham radio operators, scientists, and people interested in ionospheric and space physics are welcome to attend.

TangerineSDR QEX Article Published

Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 11:36

Submitted 1 month 5 days ago by w2naf.

The TangerineSDR is the TAPR-HamSCI joint project to create a software defined radio that meets the joint needs of the amateur and scientific communities. The TangerineSDR is slated to be at the heart of the high-performance version of the HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station. In his January/February 2020 QEX article, TangerineSDR Chief Architect Scotty Cowling WA2DFI explains the requirements and use cases of the TangerineSDR. Full text of the article is availble here. Reprinted with permission; copyright ARRL.

HamSCI Post-Doctoral Research Associate Position

Friday, December 6, 2019 - 08:42

Submitted 2 months 3 weeks ago by w2naf.

HamSCI has an opening for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate! Please see the advertisement below.

The University of Scranton Department of Physics and Engineering seeks a post-doctoral research associate starting in Spring/Summer 2020 in support of a recently awarded NSF-supported Distributed Array of Small Instruments (DASI) grant to develop a prototype Personal Space Weather Station. The successful post-doctoral researcher will conduct software development, and subsequent scientific studies, for a multi-site geographically distributed high frequency (HF; 3 – 30 MHz) software defined radio (SDR) network using signals of opportunity. Primary responsibilities will involve the development and implementation of an ionospheric sounding algorithm using the HF observation network for the purpose of studying geospace phenomena: traveling ionospheric disturbances, ionospheric responses to solar flares, geomagnetic storms and substorms, and other space weather effects. The ideal candidate will have expertise in ionospheric remote sensing, geospace physics including the ionosphere and thermosphere, and digital signal processing algorithm development and implementation.

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