<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13145">APRS' cousins in the PropNET project (we use APRS protocols on PSK31) have been asked to participate in propagation data-gathering during the upcoming eclipse.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13144"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13134">Are you willing to participate in scientific research, using Amateur Radio?<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13101"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13102">Is your HF station equipped to operate on "soundcard modes" such as PSK31?<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13103"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13104">If you answered "yes" to these questions, then The PropNET Project wants you!<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13105"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13106">Visit http://www.PropNET.org and select the hyperlink titled "ACDS^31 Beta" (Windows only). Set it up for your station (enter your call sign, Grid6, power level, etc), tune your transceiver to one of the three study frequencies and let it run.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13107"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13108">ACDS will cause your station to periodically TX an ID on PSK31 and will listen for other study participants, too. When there is propagation, it will be logged to a database (and displayed on a web map). That database will be used by the University study sponsors as part of their analysis of propagation anomalies during the upcoming solar eclipse!<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13109"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13110">Details:<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13111"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13112">Especially wanted - Stations in the USA's Pacific NW, Rocky Mountains and Dakotas as well as Canadian Prairies!<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13113"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13114">Time-frame - We ask participants to power-up THIS WEEKEND and REMAIN ACTIVE until September 1. This will provide a "baseline" both before and after the Eclipse on the 21st.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13115"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13116">Frequencies - 10 meters (28.1188 USB), 30 meters (10.1389 USB), 80 meters (3.5982 USB), we hope that some of the folks with 500kHz licenses would join in, too...but don't know how to ask. :-)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13117"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13118">ID Interval - set your station to ID 15x per hour (that's once every 4 minutes)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13119"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13120">Power level setting - set your "mic gain" and "RF output" to maximum. Transmit. REDUCE "RF output" until you are at 50% of maximum. REDUCE "mic gain" until you are between 10% and 25% of maximum. Operate there.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13121"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13122">Legality - ACDS^31 operates under FCC Part 97.221 for "Automatically Controlled Digital Station" operation, allowing you to participate 24/7.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13123"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13124">Anti QRM - The ACDS^31 client will RX before TX, and will QSY to a different frequency if its' initial choice is occupied.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13125"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13126">Community - Join the PropNET-Online e-mail group while you visit the http://www.PropNET.org website<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13127"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13128">A "taste" - Here is a link to a map showing the past 24 hours of 10 meter traffic documented by the PropNET project. Pushpins with a "10" are using the software. Others are non-PropNET stations that have been decoded by PropNET stations. http://propnet.org/catch3.php?band=HY&last=24&call=¢er=US<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13129"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13130">Here is a map of 30 meters, as a comparison: http://propnet.org/catch3.php?band=HG¢er=US&last=24&call=&maptype=G3&geo=&zoom=1<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13131"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13132"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501960126943_13133"><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>