Fwd: Information for you and AMRAD members

[prinaldo at cox.net]

> Hi Paul:
> 
> The Ole Virginia Hams ARC in Manassas, VA will be having a presentation 
> on HAARP at its January 19th meeting, starting at 1930 EST, at the NOVEC 
> Technical Center, 5399 Wellington Road, Gainesville VA.  Here's the 
> information.  This info provided for any AMRAD members that might be 
> interested.
> 73,
> Arthur Whittum
> W1CRO
> Ole VA Hams ARC
> 
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> For January 19th's meeting The Ole Virginia Hams ARC will be welcoming 
> Steve Floyd, W4YHD, Chief Engineer for HAARP.  Steve will be giving a 
> presentation on HAARP - The High Frequency Active Auroral Research 
> Program.    Here's a short information bit from the HAARP website:
> 
> "The High frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is a program 
> focused on the study of upper atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics 
> and Radio Science. The HAARP program operates a major Arctic ionosphere 
> research facility on an Air Force owned site near Gakona, Alaska. 
> Principal instruments installed at the HAARP Research Station include a 
> high power, high-frequency (HF) phased array radio transmitter (known as 
> the Ionosphere Research Instrument (IRI), used to stimulate small, 
> well-defined volumes of ionosphere, and a large and diversified suite of 
> modern geophysical research instruments including an HF ionosonde, ELF 
> and VLF receivers, magnetometers, riometers, a UHF diagnostic radar and 
> optical and infrared spectrometers and cameras which are used to observe 
> the complex natural variations of Alaska's ionosphere as well as to 
> detect artificial effects produced by the IRI. Future plans include 
> completion of the UHF radar to allow measurement of electron densities, 
> electron and ion temperatures, and Doppler velocities in the stimulated 
> region and in the natural ionosphere using incoherent scatter techniques."
> 
> Ionospheric research is of special interest to amateur radio operators 
> and one of the hot topics is the "IRI" - One hundred eighty (180) 
> individual 20 kW transmitters are interconnected to comprise the IRI.  
> This is definitely NOT your average QRP station!
>
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