HamSCI 2026 Program

Note: In-Person Registration for the 2026 Workshop has closed. A virtual attendance link will be published a few days before the Workshop.

Posters and presentations at the HamSCI workshop are made for community discussion and for exploration of new possibilities. Please note that these materials are not peer-reviewed.

Main Workshop Page

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Eastern Daylight Time	UTC	NR	Title	Presenter	Modality	Location
8:00 AM EDT	1200z		Facility opens with breakfast (Central Connecticut State University, Student Center)			Alumni Hall
8:45 AM EDT	1245z		Day 1 Welcome & Opening Remarks		In-person	Alumni Hall
ORAL SESSION I - Personal Space Weather Station Chair: Kristina Collins
9:00 AM EDT	1300z	O1	The HamSCI Personal Space Weather Station, Introduction and Updates	Dr. Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF The University of Scranton	In-Person	Alumni Hall
9:15 AM EDT	1315z	O2	Development of a low-cost magnetometer system for a coordinated space weather monitoring	Dr. Hyomin Kim KD2MCR New Jersey Institute of Technology	In-Person	Alumni Hall
9:30 AM EDT	1330z	O3	The Personal Space Weather Network System and Its Development	Christian Hirschey and Gavin Ward The University of Alabama	In-Person	Alumni Hall
9:45 AM EDT	1345z	O4	Multi-Static HF Time Signal Analysis for Ionospheric Sounding and TEC Estimation	Michael Hauan AC0G HamSCI Community	In-Person	Alumni Hall
10:00 AM EDT	1400z	O5	Radio Propagation Time Of Flight Measurements	Paul Elliott WB6CXC Turn Island Systems	In-Person	Alumni Hall
10:15 AM EDT	1415z		COFFEE BREAK			Alumni Hall
ORAL SESSION II Chair: Nathaniel Frissell
10:30 AM EDT	1430z	O6	INVITED TUTORIAL: Solar Eclipse Through Ham Radio: What the Bands Revealed	Kuldeep Pandey New Jersey Institute of Technology	In-Person	Alumni Hall
11:15 AM EDT	1515z	O7	Did the Miyako earthquake affect Medium Wave broadcast reception on 9 November 2025?	Satoshi Miyauchi JP1SCQ Nick Hall-Patch VE7DXR HamSCI Community	Virtual and In-Person	Alumni Hall
11:35 AM EDT	1535z	O9	Uncovering the Complexity of WSPR Daemon Noise Through Kernel Density and Gaussian Mixture Models	Robert Gerzoff WK2Y HamSCI Community	In-Person	Alumni Hall
11:55 AM EDT	1555z	O10	TUTORIAL: Introduction to Baseband Processing	Phil Erickson W1PJE, Bill Liles NQ6Z, Ethan Miller K8GU MIT Haystack, HamSCI Community, STR	In-Person	Alumni Hall
12:30 PM EDT	1630z		LUNCH			Alumni Hall
Tours of American Radio Relay League Offsite
1:45 PM EDT	1745z		Board busses to ARRL		In-Person	CCSU
2:00 - 5:00 PM EDT	1800z to 2100z		Tours of ARRL Headquarters, Laboratory, W1AW Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station	ARRL Personnel	In-Person	Newington, CT
5:00 PM EDT	2100z		Busses return to CCSU Campus		In-Person
Saturday Night Banquet LOCATION Chairs: Nathaniel Frissell and Bob Inderbitzen
6:30 PM EDT	2230z		Banquet Begins		In-person	CCSU Hilltop Cafe
7:30 PM EDT	2330z		KEYNOTE: How I Almost Went to Jail	Dr. Marc J. Kuchner Astrophysicist, Senior Science Officer, NASA	In-Person	CCSU Hilltop Cafe

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Eastern Daylight Time	UTC	NR	Title	Presenter	Modality	Location
8:00 AM EDT	1200z		Facility opens, with coffee (Central Connecticut State University, Student Center)			Alumni Hall
POSTER SESSION and DEMONSTRATIONS Chair:
8:30 AM EDT	1230z		Poster Session and Demonstrations Continental Breakfast		In-Person	Alumni Hall
11:30 AM EDT	1530z		LUNCH			Alumni Hall
ORAL SESSION III Chair: Gary Mikitin
12:30 PM EDT	1630z	O11	INVITED TUTORIAL: Meteor Scatter Science	Robert Suggs NN4NT HamSCI Community	In-person	Alumni Hall
1:15 PM EDT	1715z	O12	An Amateur Radio HF Channel Sounder	Robert Johnk WB0VGD Institute for Telecommunication Sciences NTIA/ITS (Retired)	Virtual	Alumni Hall
1:35 PM EDT	1735z	O13	Real-Life RX antenna directional performance validation	Ashraf Chaabane 3V8SS/KF5EYY ARAT Tunisia	Virtual	Alumni Hall
1:55 PM EDT	1755z	O14	A Python data analysis and synthesis toolbox for PSWS Doppler data: A time-of flight case study	Gwyn Grffiths G3ZIL HamSCI Commnity	Virtual	Alumni Hall
2:15 PM EDT	1815z		COFFEE BREAK			Alumni Hall
ORAL SESSION IV Chair:
2:30 PM EDT	1830z	O15	Personal Space Weather Station Observations of the Gannon Geomagnetic Storm	Rebecca Potter KE2EBI University of Scranton	In-Person	Alumni Hall
2:50 PM EDT	1850z	O16	The third annual HamSCI book club: a discussion on shortwave radio as it was used in World War II.	Aaron Bilow W3WAM Case Western Reserve University	In-Person	Alumni Hall
3:10 PM EDT	1910z	O17	MEMORIAL: Remembering and Honoring Paul Nicholson G8LMD: Passionate VLF Enthusiast and Master	Jonathan Rizzo KC3EEY University of Scranton	In-Person	Alumni Hall
3:40 PM EDT	1940z	O18	Phase Coding in Digital SuperDARN Radars to Observe Oblique Scattering	Allison Pitzl N4EON Virginia Tech	In-Person	Alumni Hall
4:00 PM EDT	2000z		COFFEE BREAK			Alumni Hall
ORAL SESSION V Chair:
4:15 PM EDT	2015z	O19	The SoFIE CubeSat Mission: A Global Opportunity for Amateur Radio Operators as Citizen Scientists	Jeffrey Mendenhall Saint Francis University	In-Person	Alumni Hall
4:35 PM EDT	2035z	O20	New GOES Signal Application for Monitoring Ionospheric Irregularities: A HamSCI Collaboration Vision	Theodore Beach KA8YRU Boston College, Institute for Scientific Research	In-Person	Alumni Hall
4:55 PM EDT	2055z	O21	CINEMA/MOVIE - A NASA research mission to study the Earth's magnetic tail, and its conjugate Citizen Science	David McGaw N1HAC Dartmouth	In-Person	Alumni Hall
5:15 PM EDT	1915z		Closing Remarks	Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF Bob Inderbitzen NQ1R	In-Person	Alumni Hall
5:30 PM EDT	2130z		DINNER			Alumni Hall

			DEMONSTRATIONS			All demonstrations held in Alumni Hall
		D1	Understanding HamSCI Magnetometers Measurements and Observations	Rachel Frissell W2RUF et al University of Scranton	In-Person
		D2	A Magnetometer Dashboard	Jackson Conti University of Scranton	In-Person
		D3	Introduction to Baseband Processing	Phil Erickson W1PJE and Bill Liles NQ6Z MIT Haystack, HamSCI Community	In-Person
		D4	HF Contesting Dashboard	Owen Ruzanski KD3ALD University of Scranton	In-Person
		D5	The DASI2 HamSCI Whistler Catcher VLF Reception System	Jonathan Rizzo KC3EEY University of Scranton	In-Person

			POSTERS			All posters displayed in Alumni Hall
		P1	A Citizen-Science Path to TEC: Using GNSS Measurements to Track the Ionosphere	Jeremy McLynch New Jersey Institute of Technology	In-Person
		P2	HF Doppler Studies of the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse	Emma Moran KD3CKD University of Scranton	In-Person
		P3	HamSCI Link Budget: Observations and Modeling the Signal Strength of HF Radio Links from WWV to W2NAF	Gamal Zayed The University of Cairo	Virtual
		P4	Study of HF Channel Conditions Using WWV/WWVH test Modulation Signals	Jay Weitzen AC1SN Billerica ARS, Police ARC	In-Person
		P5	An Atlas of Forms Seen on HF Personal Space Weather Station Traces, to Help Users Recognize and Analyze Events	Bob Mattaliano N6RFM HamSCI Community	Virtual
		P6	Geographic Correlation Analysis of WWV Ionospheric Propagation: Phase Stability and Fading Statistics for Adaptive HF Radio	Obinna Modilim Harvard University	In-Person
		P7	The Observation of Sporadic E Using FT8 in Japan	Ryusuke Takata JI1VHV The University of Electro-Communications	In-Person
		P8	Crowdsourced Detection of Solar-Driven Ionospheric Disturbances Using Amateur Radio Weak-Signal Networks	Ron Milione W2TAP Ormond Beach RC	Virtual
		P9	Multi-Year Climatology of Large-Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Observed with High Frequency Amateur Radio Receiving Networks Using a Novel Automated Detection Algorithm	Diego Sanchez KD2RLM University of Scranton	In-Person
		P10	The DASI2 HamSCI Whistler Catcher VLF Reception System	Jonathan Rizzo KC3EEY University of Scranton	In-Person
		P11	Parametric Modeling and Analysis of Lightning Sferic Waveforms for D-Region Remote Sensing	Mason Matrazzo Auburn University	In-Person
		P12	HF Contesting Dashboard	Owen Ruzanski KD3ALD University of Scranton	In-Person
		P13	What is the ITU-R-HF Model and How Could it Be Used in a HF Contesting Dashboard?	Liam MIller KD3BVX University of Scranton	In-Person
		P14	VHF Contests as a Propagation Study Tool	James French W8ISS HamSCI Community	In-Person
		P15	PSWS Data Roadmap	Kristina Collins KD8OXT Case Western Reserve University	In-Person
		P16	The Heliophysics Application Programming Interface on the PSWS	William Engelke AB4EJ University of Alabama	In-Person
		P17	Connecting Amateur Radio and Atmospheric Science: The CEDAR Madrigal Database	Katherine Cariglia MIT Haystack Observatory	In-Person
		P18	Starting a Low‑Cost SDR Beacon Receiver Project for Studying Extended Tropospheric Propagation on 432/902/1296 MHz	Navid Shahrouzi Case Western Reserve University	In-Person
		P19	Radioconda: Gateway to Software Radio	Ryan Volz MIT Haystack Observatory	In-Person
		P20	A Low-Cost Low-Power Chirp Ionosonde for Studying the Ionospheric Impacts of Space Weather	Gerard Piccini KD2ZHK New Jersey Institute of Technology	In-Person
		P21	Electromagnetic Vector Sensor Ionospheric Sounder (EMVISS)	John Swoboda MIT Haystack Observatory	In-Person
		P22	Meteor Scatter Statistics: Theory vs. Practice	Donald Rea K6ICF HamSCI Community	Virtual
		P23	Analyzing Meteor Scatter Communications Through Citizen Science and Data Driven Methods	Nina Tormann KD3BJV University of Scranton	In-Person
		P24	Understanding HamSCI Magnetometers Measurements and Observations: A Preliminary Report	Rachel Frissell W2RUF University of Scranton	In-Person
		P25	A Magnetometer Dashboard	Jackson Conti University of Scranton	In-Person
		P26	Assessment of a Low-Cost Magneto-Inductive Magnetometer for Personal Space Weather Stations	Daniel Clancy New Jersey Institute of Technology	In-Person
		P27	Why You Should Attend the Youth on the Air Camp	Jack Roberts W9RFT Youth on the Air	In-Person
		P28	Unauthorized Use Of Military Satellites: Threats To Mission Security And Integrity	Alexandre Takio Kitagawa PU5KTA Department of Education of Indaial	Virtual
		P29	The Influence Of Solar Activity On High-Frequency Communications: A Systemic Risk To Global Communication	Alexandre Takio Kitagawa PU5KTA Department of Education of Indaial	Virtual
		P30	Communication, Education, and Radio Technologies Summit Teacher Training Model in Türkiye	Hanife Kilic Karabuk Science and Art Center School	Virtual
		P31	Telling Radio Stories Through Stamps: Amateur Ham Radio and Project Magnet in Philately	Briti Deb VU3GMW HamSCI Community	Virtual

HamSCI Glossary

Note: Agenda is subject to change

HamSCI 2026 Program

Note: In-Person Registration for the 2026 Workshop has closed. A virtual attendance link will be published a few days before the Workshop.

Main Workshop Page

ORAL SESSION I - Personal Space Weather Station
Chair: Kristina Collins

ORAL SESSION II
Chair: Nathaniel Frissell

Tours of American Radio Relay League
Offsite

Saturday Night Banquet
LOCATION
Chairs: Nathaniel Frissell and Bob Inderbitzen

Sunday, March 15, 2026

POSTER SESSION and DEMONSTRATIONS
Chair:

ORAL SESSION III
Chair: Gary Mikitin

ORAL SESSION IV
Chair:

ORAL SESSION V
Chair:

DEMONSTRATIONS

POSTERS

HamSCI 2026 Program

Note: In-Person Registration for the 2026 Workshop has closed. A virtual attendance link will be published a few days before the Workshop.

Main Workshop Page

ORAL SESSION I - Personal Space Weather Station Chair: Kristina Collins

ORAL SESSION II Chair: Nathaniel Frissell

Tours of American Radio Relay League Offsite

Saturday Night Banquet LOCATION Chairs: Nathaniel Frissell and Bob Inderbitzen

Sunday, March 15, 2026

POSTER SESSION and DEMONSTRATIONS Chair:

ORAL SESSION III Chair: Gary Mikitin

ORAL SESSION IV Chair:

ORAL SESSION V Chair:

DEMONSTRATIONS

POSTERS

ORAL SESSION I - Personal Space Weather Station
Chair: Kristina Collins

ORAL SESSION II
Chair: Nathaniel Frissell

Tours of American Radio Relay League
Offsite

Saturday Night Banquet
LOCATION
Chairs: Nathaniel Frissell and Bob Inderbitzen

POSTER SESSION and DEMONSTRATIONS
Chair:

ORAL SESSION III
Chair: Gary Mikitin

ORAL SESSION IV
Chair:

ORAL SESSION V
Chair: