YASME SUPPORTING GRANT TO RBN

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The Board of Directors of The Yasme Foundation (http://www.yasme.org/) has made a supporting grant to establish Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) nodes in Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. The project will be carried out by youth in the ARA (Amateurs Radio Algeriens) and ARAT (Association des Radio Amateurs Tunisiens) radio clubs. The build out of these nodes will increase RBN presence in Africa for both the amateur and scientific communities. The Reverse Beacon Network is a network of global Software Defined Radio (SDR) receivers, monitoring amateur radio bands and reporting CW, RTTY, and FT8 signals to a central database at http://www.reversebeacon.net/. [TNX K4ZW]

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The Yasme Foundation has allocated funds to purchase equipment needed to add 15 nodes to the Reverse Beacon Network. These new nodes will be added in regions where there is a need for reception reports to support amateur radio operation and where those reports will also have scientific value for geophysical research. Yasme was assisted in this effort by supporting grants from the Amateur Radio Digital Communications team (https://www.ampr.org/), and by scientific advice from the HamSCI (https://hamsci.org/) researchers. Information on the node locations will be available after a final list of hosts is available. [TNX K4ZW]