Hamsci Researcher Reports on Space-Weather Monitoring Tool

Scientists and amateur radio operators are proud to announce that a member of the HamSCI scientific team has released a research paper that delves into the development of a low-cost magnetometer system permitting coordinated space-weather monitoring. The author of the paper, Dr. Hyomin Kim, PhD, KD2MCR, is an assistant professor of physics at the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, a component of New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Institute for Space Weather Sciences.

The paper is a key example of how HamSCI's work melds the world of professional research with the activities of amateur radio operators. A magnetometer measures changes and anomalies in the magnetic atmosphere of the Earth.More Information - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067224000749

Dozens of Radio Stations Were Knocked Off the Air by Helene

Hurricane Helene, which has been blamed for at least 90 deaths, also knocked at least 48 radio stations in the southeastern United States off the air, according to the Federal Communications Commission.

Helene made landfall on Thursday. The FCC has released daily summaries of cellular and broadcast station outages based on reporting to its Disaster Information Reporting System.

On Saturday the number of FM and AM stations in the southeast that were off the air was posted at 48. As of Sunday morning, the commission reported, 35 radio stations were off, including 17 in Georgia, 12 in South Carolina and the rest in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. There were five TV stations off in Georgia and North Carolina.

It’s possible that more stations were knocked off. Reporting to DIRS is voluntary, though a proposal that has been discussed at the FCC this year would mandate that stations participate in DIRS reporting. Broadcasters have pushed back against that idea.