[CQ-Contest] Ionospheric heating

[Zack Widup]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Tom Rauch wrote:

 >
 >  > You can always try it, and see for yourself, get on with some DX right
 >  > after the contest, and see how long signals last at the certain level,
 >  > and when they start dropping rapidly. Do the same test at other, non
 >  > contest days, at the same time, with similar propagation and see what
 >  > signals levels you will experience and if you get the same phenomena.
 >  > Just try to add up all contest stations with perpetual CQing, multiply
 >  > by number of (Italian :-) watts and see how much energy you will come
 >  > up with. You might be amazed. Then you tell us if it only happens on
 >  > April 1st.
 >  >
 >  > If you need more proof and info check
 >  > http://server5550.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/
 >
 > I was going to respond with a nice article about using my stacked push-pull
 > Razor beams to generate my own propagation, but then I looked at the date.
 >

BTW have you all read the QST article this month about the laser antennas?
I want one of those!

73, Zack W9SZ


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