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Subject: | Re: [Amps] 10dB and propagation |
From: | W0UN -- John Brosnahan <shr@swtexas.net> |
Date: | Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:43:02 -0600 |
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"Needlessly" is the operative word here. I get amused about all of the talk and the books about HAARP's super-secret research work. When I was there, 18 months ago, there WAS a gate at the entrance, but mostly to keep the RVers from driving through and setting up camp. And there was a big fence around the array, most likely for two reasons 1) to protect personnel from going into the array during operation in order to comply with RF exposure limits and 2) to keep large creatures out of the antennas. It takes a very serious fence to keep moose and bear out of a research site in Alaska. Security? Well, I was there for a week, working on the two diagnostic radars that I built for the program a number of years ago (50 KW pulsed radars at 27.8 and 49.8 MHz) and no one asked me to sign in, or for an ID, or even who I was. Of course I was with a scientist from Hansom Labs (formerly AFGL -- Air Force Geophysics Laboratory) who works there regularly, but there was absolutely no security -- not quite like the picture painted by the conspiracy theorists who try to make the case that HAARP is for all kinds of clandestine programs. I have even seen claims that HAARP may be responsible for the recent tsunami. It is AMAZING to me that there are so many CRACKPOTS and LOONIES out there and the internet and late-night talk radio gives them all an even greater voice. There have been a number of ionospheric heaters ever since the first one was built in Platteville, CO in 1970, near my old Colorado QTH. Gorky, Russia, Tromso, Norway, Arecibo, Puerto Rico were all sites for heaters and I have visited all of them except for Gorky. I guess if I knew LESS I could write a book and make some money promoting some crazy idea, but I know too much and can't and won't perpetuate some sort of scam, like the books out there that do PURPORT to know something. 73 --John W0UN -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 2/3/2005 _______________________________________________ Amps mailing list Amps@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/amps |
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