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HAARP Facility to Reopen in 2017 Under New Ownership
Oliver:
Let the conspiracy theories resume! Alaska’s High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility will reopen in 2017. The sprawling facility now is under the ownership of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), and the UAF Geophysical Institute is preparing HAARP for a new sponsored research campaign that’s set to begin early next year, UAF Researcher Chris Fallen, KL3WX, told ARRL.
“This involves, for example, reinstalling the vacuum tubes in each of the 10 kW amplifiers — eventually 360 in total — that were removed by the US Air Force [the facility’s former owner] for warm storage in the main facility,” Fallen said. He later clarified that’s just one-half of the 720 tubes required to equip all of HAARP’s transmitters. “For the first campaign we will only be bringing half of the array online, as we will only have half the tubes installed,” he explained. “It’s a long process and we have limited resources.” He noted that the transmitter shelters have been unheated since the previous campaign in the summer of 2014. “The five generators — approximately 3 MW each — have recently been tested individually and are verified operational.”
Fallen said the HAARP ionosonde (DPS4D “Digisonde”) will be brought back online. “Some instruments on site need to be repaired or replaced,” he said. Those would include riometers and a UHF radar. “Optical instruments will be brought back. The flux-gate magnetometer is operational again.”
Fallen said other researchers are planning to install instruments at the science pads. “We are still investigating models for increasing Amateur Radio involvement with HAARP, which, in addition to announcing operating schedules, can potentially include hosting one or more ham stations on or near the science pads,” he said.
UAF describes HAARP as “the world’s most capable high-power, high-frequency transmitter for study of the ionosphere.” Built in three phases, starting in the early 1990s and continuing through 2007, at a cost of some $300 million, HAARP over the years has inspired a wide range of conspiracy theories that became grist for late-night radio talk shows. Some have claimed that HAARP’s transmitters and 30-acre antenna farm — capable of generating up to 5 GW ERP — have been used to control the weather, while others have argued that HAARP has caused earthquakes.
The FCC recently granted two Part 5 Experimental Service licenses for HAARP ionospheric research “across multiple bands.” WI2XFX will cover experiments in discrete parts of the HF spectrum, including 2650-2850; 3155-3400; 4438-4650; 4750-4995; 5005-5450; 5730-5950, and 7300-8100 kHz. A second Experimental license, WI2XDV, covers ionopheric research between 1 and 40 MHz.
UAF is hosting an open house at HAARP, located near Gakona, Alaska, on Aug. 27. The event will feature facility tours, a mobile planetarium, a permafrost exhibit, science demonstrations and talks, and barbecue.
Fallen will deliver a free science lecture on Friday, August 26, at the Wrangell-St Elias National Park Visitor Center Auditorium, “Radio Modification of the Ionosphere, and Who Uses This HAARP Thing Anyway?” in partnership with the Wrangell Institute for Science and the Environment (WISE).
HAARP is aimed at studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere. Operation of the research facility was transferred from the US Air Force to the University of Alaska Fairbanks last August, allowing HAARP to continue exploring ionospheric phenomena via a land-use cooperative research and development agreement.
Source:http://www.radioworld.com/article/haarp-facility-to-reopen-in-2017-under-new-ownership/279394
Josh:
http://www.google.com/patents/US4686605
Cough.
Pigmeat:
Al and I made a pile on this deal. We're planning on plowing most of it into getting alligators off of the endangered list and back on shoe racks where they belong. The rest is going to training hybrid puffin/penguins to take out Greenland sharks to save the ice sheet. Global warming should go the way Y2K within six months of the release of the P.P.'s.
Of course, we may just blow it at the dog track. We've got a system.
ka1iic:
--- Quote from: Josh on August 12, 2016, 2113 UTC ---http://www.google.com/patents/US4686605
Cough.
--- End quote ---
From the document Josh directed us to here is a quote:
"It has also been proposed to release large clouds of barium
in the magnetosphere so that photoionization will increase
the cold plasma density, thereby producing electron
precipitation through enhanced whistler-mode interactions."
"... Large clouds of barium in the magnetosphere..." ???
Well folks sounds like someone wants to give the magnetosphere a barium enema.
That sounds about as nutty as something Doctor Poo would think of...
Lord help us, the nutz are operating the nut house...
Once again the taxpayers foot the bill and then get S**T on because of it!
We the people will get pooped on because 'they' can!
Arrrggghhhh... where's the burbon!
Fansome:
http://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2016/08/24/haarps-new-owner-holds-open-house-to-prove-facility-is-not-capable-of-mind-control/
HAARP's new owner holds open house to prove facility 'is not capable of mind control'
Author: Yereth Rosen Updated: 11 hours ago Published 1 day ago
The antennas of the upper-atmosphere research station near Gakona keep exploring at the facility, which is now owned by the University of Alaska Fairbanks. (Bill Bristow / UAF)
HAARP is under new management, and the public is invited to get a look at the research facility that, in past years, has been the subject of dark rumors.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks now owns and operates the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program and invites the public to an open house Saturday. This is interested visitors' chance to learn about the scientific mission and research at the Gakona facility, which was transferred last year from the U.S. Air Force to UAF.
UAF officials are hoping for a high turnout.
"We hope that people will be able to see the actual science of it," said Sue Mitchell, spokesperson for UAF's Geophysical Institute, which operates the facility. "We hope to show people that it is not capable of mind control and not capable of weather control and all the other things it's been accused of."
HAARP, which opened in the 1990s, is one of the world's few centers for high-power and high-frequency study of the ionosphere, Earth's thin upper atmosphere, which gets its name from the high quantities of ionized atoms and molecules that bounce around it. The ionosphere is important because radio waves used for communication and navigation reflect back to Earth, allowing long-distance, short-wave broadcasting.
To study the ionosphere and what is happening there, HAARP uses 180 high-frequency antennas spread over 33 acres.
The antenna field will be available for public tours at the open house, and one of the facility's scientist will be available to explain how it works, Mitchell said.
Other features include an unmanned aircraft "petting zoo" and various interactive displays about space weather and other subjects, Mitchell said. There will also be an opportunity for visitors to tour UAF permafrost and seismic stations that are not part of HAARP but within walking distance, she said.
Refreshments will be served, and the event is open for all ages, according to the Geophysical Institute.
HAARP is a 240-mile drive from Fairbanks and roughly 198 miles from Anchorage.
A related event is a Friday night public lecture on HAARP, to be held at the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Visitor Center, about 30 miles away from the facility.
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