You might have noticed that we’ve been kind of incommunicado lately and not posting any new content. That’s because my son and I have been on the road, selling eclipse glasses for the annular solar eclipse, which will be visible in most of North and South America on Saturday, October 14, 2023. If you still need a pair of glasses, you can find them at one of the retailers we’ve sold to from Nevada to Texas, listed at this page.
If you don’t have glasses, see our post from 2017 showing safe projection methods of viewing the eclipse.
Our official headquarters for the eclipse will be near Corpus Christi Texas, probably at the Padre Island National Seashore, as we watch the annular eclipse leave the United States and head toward Central and South America.
For hams, please listen for us (W0IS) during the Solar Eclipse QSO Party on 40 meters CW. We will try to set up and look for contacts, probably after annularity, or shortly after noon central time. We will be calling CQ looking for contacts, as well as making ourselves visible on the Reverse Beacon Network. After the eclipse, other citizen scientists will analyze the data generated to see how the eclipse affects the ionosphere. You should be able to see where we are heard at this link. Since we will be in a National Park and on an island, we’ll also submit our logs for POTA and WWFF, as well as US Islands and/or IOTA.
For information about the exact times that the eclipse can be viewed in your area, visit this page. For information from NASA on safely viewing the eclipse, visit this page.