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The Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS) project aims to create a geographically distributed, multi-instrument system capable of making ground-based measurements of the space environment. The observations from this project will be useful to the owner of each system, but, more importantly, they will be aggregated into a central database for space science and space weather research purposes. The systems are designed to be relatively low cost, easily constructed and deployed by science professionals, educational institutions and citizen scientists.
The PSWS project is motivated by questions from both from the science and amateur radio communities:
Science Questions
- How does the ionosphere respond to inputs from space and from the neutral atmosphere?
- How does the ionosphere couple with the neutral atmosphere and with space?
- What are the sources of medium and large scale traveling ionospheric disturbances?
- What are the causes of Sporadic E?
Amateur Radio Questions
- How do disturbances such as solar flares, geomagnetic storms, and traveling ionospheric disturbances affect radio wave propagation?
- How does ionospheric science help amateur radio operators improve communications?
- How can I make measurements in my own backyard that will help improve my amateur radio operations?
This project is led by the The University of Scranton, in collaboration with the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio, Inc. (TAPR), Case Western Reserve University, the University of Alabama, the New Jersey Institute of Technology Center for Solar Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory, as a part of Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation.