Scott wrote:
Gotcha...that explains it. I personally thought HAARP was a neat
concept, especially for hams...man-made aurora!! 
Not sure if
they're
still doing research with it or not. Their website seems a bit
dated.
I copied their test transmission back in 1999 I think it was...pretty
nifty!
Scott
N0EDV
Art Deco wrote:
Scott wrote:
Huh?
Maybe we're all talking about different HAARPs. The HAARP I
thought was
being discussed is at http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/
You are correct; the experiment has attracted every
end-of-the-world
gloom-and-doom conspiracist on the planet, especially on usenet.
One
well-known kook even claimed that HAARP was responsible for the
loss of
Columbia. Thus my comment that any thread with 'HAARP' in the
subject
line is from a kook (well, at least a 99% chance).
Scott
Art Deco wrote:
HAARP Microwave Beam wrote:
HAARP antennae?
go to http://haarp-microwave.tripod.com/haarp.html
to see what billions of money is going into this weapons program!
Note: using the acronym "HAARP" in a post subject line is an
automatic
kooksign.
This should indicate that HAARP is still in bsuiness as a scientific
operation. Given the, rather mild for a Haarp item, 'informed' and
'rational' responses I see on this and other newsgroups I would assume
they keep a very low profile and are not really outgoing or incoming.
The site cited (always wanted to say that) shows you pictures and gives
points of access for more information.
http://www.livescience.com/technolog...ight_show.html
First Artificial Neon Sky Show Created
By Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience Senior Writer
posted: 02 February 2005
02:12 pm ET
By shooting intense radio beams into the night sky, researchers created
a modest neon light show visible from the ground. The process is not
well understood, but scientists speculate it could one day be employed
to light a city or generate celestial advertisements.
Researchers with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
(HAARP) project in Alaska tickled the upper atmosphere to the extent
that it glowed with green speckles.
The speckles were sprinkled amid a natural display known as the aurora
borealis, or Northern Lights. The aurora occurs when electrons from a
cloud of hot gas, known as plasma, rain down from space and excite
molecules in the ionosphere, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) up.
The HAARP experiment involves acres of antennas and a 1 megawatt
generator. The scientists sent radio pulses skyward every 7.5 seconds,
explained team leader Todd Pederson of the Air Force Research
Laboratory.
"The radio waves travel up to the ionosphere, where they excite the
electrons in the plasma," Pederson told LiveScience. "These electrons
then collide with atmospheric gasses, which then give off light, as in
a neon tube."
Pederson and his colleagues missed the show, but they snapped images.
"We unfortunately were indoors watching the data on monitors during the
experiment and were busy scrambling trying to make sure the effects
were real and not some glitch with the equipment," he said. "We knew
right away it was something extraordinary to show up in real time on
the monitor against the natural aurora, but did not confirm that it
would have been visible to the naked eye until a day or two later when
we had a chance to calibrate the raw data."
The experiment is detailed in the Feb. 2 issue of the journal Nature.
The research could improve understanding of the aurora and also help
explain how the ionosphere adversely affects radio communications.
It is not yet clear if the aurora must already be active before an
artificial sky show can be induced, says Karl Ziemelis, chief physics
editor at the journal.
If no pre-existing aurora is required, Ziemelis said, "we are left with
the tantalizing (some would say disconcerting) possibility that such
radio-fuelled emissions could form the basis of a technology for urban
lighting, celestial advertising, and more."