LF: 6th European Space Weather Week

[Rik Strobbe <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.be>]

Dear all,

it is a bit off topic but maybe interesting to some:

 From 16-20 November there is the 6th European Space Weather Week in
Bruges (Belgium), see

http://sidc.oma.be/esww6/index.php .
Although the primary audience is "professional" some of the
lecture are interesting for radio amateurs, as the organizers
state:

Special Note: 
Radio amateurs with a license to operate are also welcome to the
conference and will get a discount. Radio Amateurs are requested to send
a copy of their license to

esa.conference@esa.int within one week after registration.
Registration as a Radio Amateur includes access to scientific sessions on
Tuesday and Wednesday only. The reduced fee is 50 ?. Attendance to the
reception and conference dinner is not included. The deadline for online

registration for hams is October 19. 

In addition I received a mail from Juha-Pekka
Luntama  (Space Situational Awareness Programme,
Space Weather Manager,  ESA). He is interested to find a radio
amateur who wants to give a talk:

I am organising a splinter meeting titled
as Ionospheric Effects Topical Group during the 6th European Space
Weather Week. I would be interested on inviting you or somebody else from
the HAMS community to give a small presentation about the ionospheric
effects on radio signal propagation from the HAMS point of view. 
I would like to be in contact with ppl who are planning to participate
the meeting and who would be interested to give a presentation. It is
also prefectly possible to have more than one person (maybe 1-2) to give
the talk. The interesting topic would be the HAMS perspective and e.g. do
you use existing space weather services or other information to predict
when conditions suitable for your long distance communication links might
exist. 

73, Rik   ON7YD - OR7T