HAMSCI Releases First Solar Eclipse Findings

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If you participated in the Solar Eclipse QSO Party this past autumn, yours is among the 300 logs that are helping yield data for the HamSCI team led by Nathaniel Frissell [Frizz-Zell] W2NAF. The QSO Party helped flesh out the overall picture, along with data collection from more than 7 million QSOs spotted on the air and a variety of experiments to study the solar eclipse's effects on the ionosphere.

As HamSCI prepares for another QSO Party and more observations during the total solar eclipse over North America on April 8th, the team has released its earliest findings from October. The detailed technical document contains a variety of charts and graphic elements that expand on these observations. Please visit our website, arnewsline.org, and click on the tab that says "EXTRA."

The full illustrated HamSCI document - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58b08985be65947bf171e05e/t/6572891a465c9718794ada94/1702005019082/Post+Annular+Eclipse+Release+2+December+2023+with+Graphics.pdf

Ofcom Investigation Helps to Convict a Man of Causing Interference to Amateur Radio

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Ofcom Investigation Helps to Convict a Man of Causing Interference to Amateur Radio

Investigations carried out by Ofcom’s spectrum experts have helped to secure the conviction of a man who was deliberately causing harmful interference to amateur radio users in and around Hull.

In February 2021 we received complaints from radio amateurs in the area, who told us they had been subjected to deliberate interference of their transmissions, as well as receiving abusive messages. The culprit had been using radio bands illegally to do this, as he didn’t have a licence to do so.

We were required to intervene in this case because the illegal activity was significant and targeted, and it was suspected that the culprit was somebody who had previously been convicted of similar activity.

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