HAARP Project Proceeds; Said to Be Record-Setting HF Project

[Dover]

HAARP Project Proceeds; Said to Be Record-Setting HF Project

Continental said it is ahead of schedule in delivering 132 ultra-low-noise transmitters to U.S. government contractor BAE Systems for use in the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.

"When the massive planar array for ionospheric research is completed in 2007, it will include a total of 180 Continental Electronics D616G 10-kW combined transmitters, which the company is upgrading specifically for HAARP," the supplier stated. The facility is near Gakona, Alaska.

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According to the manufacturer, the federal government is constructing the facility to conduct upper-atmospheric and solar-terrestrial research via a phased array transmitter. The goal is to learn more about the ionosphere, a section of the atmosphere ionized by solar radiation with natural electrical currents that can be modulated with radio signals.

"Much of the ionosphere's scientific potential lies in satellite communications, which depends on signals passing through it," Continental stated.

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[leveymg]

1. Oh, lovely. Cut holes through the ionosphere so you can shoot big lasers

up and down from orbit.

Someone pass me the sunblock.:grr:

[Canuckistanian]

2. What frequency band are they using?

Those are huge RF power ranges they're talking about. I've never seen RF power described in dBW before.

If they don't get it right, there could be massive RFI effects.