December, 2025 MSQP Results Announced
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Gary Mikitin, AF8A
Apr 15, 2026, 9:42:32 PM (2 days ago) Apr 15
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2025 Results
HamSCI is pleased to publish the numerical results from the December 12-13, 2025 Meteor Scatter QSO Party, here on the HamSCI website.
The August 11-12, 2025 results were published previously, available here.
It is hoped that the HamSCI MS Team will be able to announce the new events at the Dayton/Xenia Hamvention in May (and posted here soon after)
In the meantime, keep listening for pings, working the rocks, and looking up to the night sky when showers are predicted (see attachment from Rob Suggs, NN4NT).
73 de Gary, AF8A
HamSCI is pleased to publish the numerical results from the December 12-13, 2025 Meteor Scatter QSO Party, here on the HamSCI website.
The August 11-12, 2025 results were published previously, available here.
HamSCI wishes to offer a hearty 'thank you' to all those who participated in 2025, the inaugural year.
What's Next?
What's Next?
A fair question to be asked: What's next for HamSCI in the area of meteor scatter operating and research?
We'd like to continue the MSQP, on an expanded basis, in 2026. There are a number of showers, beyond the Perseids and Geminids, which have high zenithal hourly rates - rates high enough to support significant amateur radio activity.
There is much more to be done on the research side - one key task is to routinely and accurately identify propagation mode via WAV files of successful MSK144 decodes. (Not every completed MSK144 QSO occurs due to meteor scatter - many are due to other propagation modes, such as E-skip, or F-layer refraction.)
We have a good team working on that problem. They will be building on the undergraduate research done by Nina Tormann, KD3BJV, at the University of Scranton.
We'd like to continue the MSQP, on an expanded basis, in 2026. There are a number of showers, beyond the Perseids and Geminids, which have high zenithal hourly rates - rates high enough to support significant amateur radio activity.
There is much more to be done on the research side - one key task is to routinely and accurately identify propagation mode via WAV files of successful MSK144 decodes. (Not every completed MSK144 QSO occurs due to meteor scatter - many are due to other propagation modes, such as E-skip, or F-layer refraction.)
We have a good team working on that problem. They will be building on the undergraduate research done by Nina Tormann, KD3BJV, at the University of Scranton.
It is hoped that the HamSCI MS Team will be able to announce the new events at the Dayton/Xenia Hamvention in May (and posted here soon after)
In the meantime, keep listening for pings, working the rocks, and looking up to the night sky when showers are predicted (see attachment from Rob Suggs, NN4NT).
73 de Gary, AF8A
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