Mitzi Adams, Dennis Gallagher, and Heidi Haviland participated in-person at the hybrid annual amateur radio science workshop, called the HamSci Workshop, held in Huntsville, March 17-18, 2022. The HamSci workshop brings together amateur-radio enthusiasts and professional scientists to discuss opportunities to use the radio hobby, enabled by low cost and often mobile, home radio stations to perform science.
This year’s conference was focused on the Weather Connection and its applications in amateur radio. Some of the interesting presentations included making a home fluxgate magnetometer, identifying the sporadic E-layer, amateur radio on the ISS and Gateway, natural sources of radio waves, ionospheric impacts of space weather, and a tutorial on space weather from Sun to Mud. Mitzi Adams participated on the local organizing committee. Dennis Gallagher set up a demonstration of a Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio receiver. Rob Suggs/EV44 led the Marshall Amateur Radio Club (MARC) demo station at the workshop, which included a special event station that highlighted the workshop live on the “air”, or radio waves. Linda Krause also helped in the planning and preparations for the conference.