Ep. #408 Solar Eclipse QSO Party (SEQP) Contest - 2017
So the day of the 2017 solar eclipse, I decided to give the Solar Eclipse QSO Party (SEQP) contest a try. All things go: digital, phone, whisper, etc - whatever you can work, you can count. The contest's main goal is to see how the eclipse affects radio waves, so it was a pretty interesting experiment.
Even though we couldn't see the eclipse here in Iowa, the contest was pretty successful for me, and it was a lot more eventful than the Rookie Roundup. 😉
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