HamSCI 2026 Program

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 Please note that these materials are not peer-reviewed.

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Saturday, March 14, 2026

Eastern Daylight Time UTC NR Title Presenter Modality Location
8:00 AM EDT 1200z   Registration & 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:  
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 

 Bill Engelke AB4EJ
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:  
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
11:00 AM EDT 1500z O7

Did the Miyako earthquake affect Medium Wave broadcast reception on 9 November 2025?

 Satoshi Miyauchi JP1SCQ
Nick Hall-Patch VE7DXR
HamSCI Community		 Virtual Alumni Hall
11:30 AM EDT 1530z O8

The International WSPR beacon project and WSPR HF Propagation path Analytics

Eduardo Victor Valdez
Ateneo de Manila University

 In-Person Alumni Hall
11:45 AM EDT 1545z O9

Uncovering the Complexity of WSPR Daemon Noise Through Kernel Density and Gaussian Mixture Models

Robert Gerzoff WK2Y
HamSCI Community

 In-Person Alumni Hall
12:00 PM EDT 1600z 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:  Citizen Science 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   Registration & Continental Breakfast  (Central Connecticut State University, Student Center)     Alumni Hall

POSTER SESSION and DEMONSTRATIONS
Chair: 
8:30 AM EDT 1230z   Poster Session and Demonstrations   In-Person Alumni Hall
11:30 AM EDT 1530z   LUNCH     Alumni Hall

ORAL SESSION III
Chair: 
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
             

 

 

     POSTER AND DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS WILL APPEAR BELOW IN MID-FEBRUARY      

Note: Agenda is subject to change