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Offline ChrisSmolinski

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HAARP will be on the air February 19-22
« on: February 18, 2017, 1716 UTC »
Here is the operating schedule for HAARP, they will be on the air February 19-22:

Several new updates:

The HAARP campaign will run from 19-22 February, with operations occurring between approximately 0900 hours to 2200 hours Alaska Standard Time (AKST). Exact times, transmit frequencies, and experiment modes are subject to change in response to a variety of factors and selected updates will be posted via social media outlets.

My artificial airglow and Luxembourg effect experiments will start at 1930 hours AKST on 19, 20, and 22 February; and at 2030 hours on 21 February. Anticipated operating frequencies from recent ionosphere conditions are around 2.7 MHz for the airglow experiments; and 2.7 simultaneous with 3.3 MHz for the Luxembourg broadcasts.  The Luxembourg broadcasts will likely occur earlier in the window rather than later, due to recent rapid ionosphere decay with sunset.

New updates to the Tune-In page thanks to reader contributions. See new links to previous HAARP recordings and a new shortwave radio recommendation!
Thank you for your interest and your letters! I would like to send updates and replies more frequently but science is hard and time is short. Stay tuned!


https://sites.google.com/alaska.edu/gakonahaarpoon/operations-news
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Re: HAARP will be on the air February 19-22
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2017, 0018 UTC »
Al will be dressing in full foil until Wednesday. Now, how will he..... Never mind, I don't want to know!

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Re: HAARP will be on the air February 19-22
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2017, 0524 UTC »
I wonder if they realize they'll be thoroughly squashing CHU, as well as likely splattering onto South Africa and possibly an Indonesian and a Papua New Guinean or two, if they're on 3.3mHz? :( 

2.7mHz is near Samoa's usual freq as well, isn't it? 
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Re: HAARP will be on the air February 19-22
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2017, 1436 UTC »
I tried the times stated on one of the Twitter accounts and checked for any messages . They didn't
Tweet until it was over apparently.  
Looks like the music went off somewhere around 5 ut, at 2800-2840 khz
There was a loud S9 jammer type signal at 2700 , but I went to bed after the posted times passed.
 https://mobile.twitter.com/UAFGI
« Last Edit: February 20, 2017, 1438 UTC by Davep »
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Re: HAARP will be on the air February 19-22
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2017, 1452 UTC »
I didn't hear anything here in CT.
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Re: HAARP will be on the air February 19-22
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2017, 1514 UTC »
I tried the times stated on one of the Twitter accounts and checked for any messages . They didn't
Tweet until it was over apparently.  

Chris Fallen, an assistant research professor with the project, was Tweeting in near real time with reasonably up to the minute updates.

https://twitter.com/ctfallen

Looks like the music went off somewhere around 5 ut, at 2800-2840 khz
There was a loud S9 jammer type signal at 2700 , but I went to bed after the posted times passed.

A quick breakdown of the HAARP transmissions for early morning, 20 February, 2017:

~0110 to 0200 UTC, active on 4440 kHz with CW.

0207 to 0236 UTC, active on 3350 kHz.  Burst sent every 30 seconds.  Burst length is 4 seconds and consist of 15 short pulses at 5 pulses / second followed by one, one second long pulse.  HAARP system was apparently in X mode during this time.

0239 to 0259 UTC, active on 2800 kHz.  Same signal as 0207 to 0236 on 3350, 15 short pulses and one long pulse in a 4 second long burst sent every 30 seconds.  Still apparently in X mode.

0300 to 0342 UTC, Using both 2800 and 3300 kHz at the same time in Luxembourg Transmission tests.  This series involved different audio being sent in AM mode, sometimes tones, beeps, and music.  This was a 9 minute and 30 second cycle repeated every 10 minutes, so there were 4 complete cycles during this time period, one starting 0300, the next 0312, next 0322, and the last starting at 0332 UTC

0343 to 0433 UTC, Sequencing 2800, 2820, and 2840 kHz, CW on each, Artificial Aurora test.  Transmissions 90 seconds long on each freq, off air for 30 seconds, and then to the next in the cycle.  Sequence was 2800 kHz in X mode, 2800 kHz in O mode, 2820 kHz in O mode, 2840 kHz in O mode, then back to start of sequence.

Keep in mind that when I use CW above I do not mean Morse code, rather I mean CW as defined by RF types not in communications, CW is Continuous Wave, and simply means an unmodulated carrier.

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« Last Edit: February 20, 2017, 1632 UTC by Token »
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Re: HAARP will be on the air February 19-22
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2017, 1524 UTC »
Thanks Token! Maybe tonight ..
« Last Edit: February 20, 2017, 1532 UTC by Davep »
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