I love this story, even though I'm not entirely sure if the answer is "yes." On April 8th, a rare total solar eclipse is coming to a sky near you, the kind that creates night in the middle of the day, completely blocking the sun for several minutes. We all know the effects of what happens to radio signals at night when the sun goes down. 

Does that mean that while this celestial event is happening here it will act the same as when radio signals bounce off the ionosphere in the darkness? While there will be no power changes for a nighttime pattern (which should actually make for stronger signals), a group of scientists are going to use the eclipse to try and find out what happens to radio while it's going on.

"Led by Nathaniel Frissell, a professor of Physics and Engineering at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, HamSCI participants will share their radio data to catalog how the sudden loss of sunlight during totality affects their radio signals...

“During the 2017 eclipse, we found that the ionosphere behaved very similar to nighttime,” Frissell said. "Radio signals traveled farther, and frequencies that typically work best at night became usable. Frissell hopes to continue the comparison between eclipses and the day/night cycle, assessing how widespread the changes in the ionosphere are and comparing the results to computer models."

So while many will be looking upwards (hopefully, only with special eye protection) others will be tuning their radios to see if nighttime DX can happen in the daytime. I'm pretty sure nothing will happen. But won't it be amazing if it does?

NASA-Funded Science Projects Tuning In to ‘Eclipse Radio’