Outreach
Two ways to work with the club: making a contact that is challenging to complete, and studying why the challenge exists.
Contacts over difficult HF paths
If you are outside the U.S. and have never worked a U.S. station on a difficult HF path, such as 160 m to Asia or Oceania, or a path that only opens for a few minutes near sunrise or sunset, we would like to try with you. A planned schedule often succeeds where calling CQ does not.
- Email wu1itu@wu1itu.club with your callsign, location or grid, and the bands you can use.
- Tell us the times when the band usually opens toward North America from your end.
- We agree on a frequency, a mode (usually FT8 or CW) and who transmits first.
- Afterward we exchange logs, so that failed attempts are useful data too.
Research collaborations
The club is interested in how amateur radio software interacts with HF and VHF propagation. Our past reports looked at eclipse effects on 40 m and at Deep Search decoding of EME signals. We welcome collaborators on questions like these:
- How fading, Doppler spread and long delay affect decoder sensitivity and false-decode rates.
- Using Reverse Beacon Network, pskreporter.info and WSPRnet.org data to separate real openings from changes in activity.
- Sporadic E and multi-hop paths on 6 m, and how short openings show up in automatic reports.
- Comparing what different software versions decode from the same recorded audio.