Information from Jayant, KG5LJZ.
Upcoming solar eclipse is coming soon August 21 and hams will be conducting testing during this event. The objective of the Solar Eclipse QSO Party (SEQP) is to flood the airwaves with contacts, all measured by the automated receiver networks of the Reverse Beacon Network, PSKReporter, and WSPRNet. When those observations are combined with the logs from individual stations, the result will be one of the largest ionospheric experiments ever performed. Here’s how hams can have a starring role…
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/QST/This%20Month%20in%20QST/August2017/Silver.pdf