HAARP slated for research campaign

 

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) will be conducting a research campaign on May 8-10 UTC, with operating times specified below. Operating frequencies will vary, but all HAARP transmissions will be between 2.8 MHz and 10 MHz.

Actual transit days and times are highly variable based on real-time ionospheric and/or geomagnetic conditions. All information is subject to change.

This campaign is being conducted in support of research proposals from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is a study of mechanisms for the detection of orbiting space debris. Space debris poses a major risk to all space operations, including manned spacecraft and communications satellites. 

These experiments are being performed at HAARP will help identify ways to improve collision detection on satellites.

For more information on space debris, see the NASA Orbital Debris Program Office's FAQ at: https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/faq. For more information research at HAARP, see the online HAARP FAQ at: https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/faq 

Date (UTC) May 8 May 9 May 10

Time (UTC) 2000-0200 2000-0200 2000-0230

Frequencies (MHz) 3.25, f0F2 3.25, f0F2 3.25, f0F2

For updates on ionospheric cconditions in Gakona, please consult ionograms from the HAARP

Diagnostic Suite: https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/diagnostic-suite

HAARP to Transmit Experiments February 28 Through March 3

 

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) will be conducting a research campaign February 28-March 3 UTC, with operating times specified in the table below. Operating frequencies will vary, but all HAARP transmissions will be between 2.8 MHz and 10 MHz. Actual transmit days and times are highly variable based on real-time ionospheric and/or geomagnetic conditions. All information is subject to change.

These experiments will help lead to a greater understanding of the production and enhancement of ELF/VLF waves, as well as lay the groundwork for future studies of satellite interactions with space plasma. For more information on ELF/VLF wave generation with HAARP, see the online HAARP FAQ at https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/faq.

https://daily.hamweekly.com/2024/02/haarp-ionospheric-tests-february-march/

(photo/VOA News)

New HAARP transmissions, October 23-26

 

Ghosts in the Air Glow

Press Release

October 17, 2022.

Quick Information

Title: Ghosts in the Air Glow: Composition No. 2

Medium: Transmission Art (artwork made about or with the electromagnetic spectrum)

Funded by: Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des arts du Canada (CCA / CAC)

Artist: Amanda Dawn Christie

Organization: UAF-HAARP: the University of Alaska Fairbanks High-frequency Active Auroral Research

Program, Gakona Alaska

Project Website : www.ghostsintheairglow.space

Dates and Times:

October 23 & 24, 06:00 UTC and October 25 & 26 16:30 UTC

Description:

Ghosts in the Air Glow: is a transmission art project working with the HAARP Ionospheric

Research Instrument to mix audio and images at the liminal boundaries of earth’s atmosphere and outer

space. Composition No. 2 is a half-hour transmission artwork that will be transmitted four times from the HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument during the October 2022 research campaign. The Air glow and Luxembourg experiments will be paired with the AM modulation of Narrow Band Television (NBTV) video art, spoken word, and sound art created by Amanda Dawn Christie.

As a citizen science experiment to learn more about propagation, shortwave listeners from around the world are invited to tune in and submit reception reports in exchange for QSL cards. Transmission frequencies will be listed on the project’s new website, designed by Co & Co:

www.ghostsintheairglow.space . Reception reports can be submitted using the online form which is also on the website.

For those who do not have access to shortwave radio equipment, the project will also be streamed live on the home page of the project’s website. This allows people to tune in online from anywhere in the world. The live streams will be sent from receptions on the ground in Gakona. There are frequently two frequencies transmitted simultaneously, and as such there are two videos embedded side by side (one for each frequency) that can be viewed simultaneously.

The first tests for this project, designated as Composition No. 1 included a full hour of audio and SSTV images were transmitted four times during the March 2019 campaign. The project will culminate with a third and final artwork, Composition No. 3 to be transmitted sometime in 2023. The October 2022 transmission also serves as a test for a new web form built to receive and manage reception reports. The new website for this project, beautifully designed by Co&Co, includes a web form for submitting reception reports that will automatically populate a searchable database with information for archiving in the repository.

Ghosts in the Air Glow is being created with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. HAARP is a phased array of 180 HF crossed-dipole antennas spread over 33 acres of land in Alaska. The site was built in the 1990s and was a jointly managed program of the United States Air Force and the United States Navy. Responsibility for the HAARP facilities and equipment formally transferred from the military to UAF in 2015, the goal of the research at HAARP is to conduct a fundamental study of the physical processes at work in the very highest portions of our atmosphere, called the thermosphere and ionosphere. For more information on HAARP, see https://www.gi.alaska.edu/facilities/haarp.

Since 2015, the bulk of the research experiments conducted at HAARP are in plasma physics. However, there is a great deal of potential for research in radio propagation. Very few experiments have

been done with transmitting audio and images.

Amanda Dawn Christie is an interdisciplinary new media artist who makes film, installation, performance, and transmission artworks. Over the past decade, her works have been presented on five

continents by various galleries, museums, festivals, broadcasters, and research facilities. Concepts and

themes explored in her work focus primarily on the relationship between the human body and analog

technology in a digital age. 

She spent the last decade working on various projects related to shortwave radio and the RCI (Radio Canada International) shortwave transmission site. These include Spectres of Shortwave —a two-hour experimental documentary film as well as several accompanying gallery installations, sculptures, and photo series —and Requiem for Radio —a one-hour interdisciplinary performance comprised of five parts, including interactive instrument design, international shortwave simulcasts, and theatrical performance. 

Both Spectres of Shortwave and Requiem for Radio were created with the support of Arts NB and the Canada Council for the Arts. Christie completed her MFA at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, and most recently worked as Assistant Professor in Studio Art: Intermedia (Video Performance, and Electronic Arts) at Concordia University in Montreal. She is currently based in the Atlantic region of Canada. Ghosts in the Air Glow is generously supported by funds from the Canada Council for the Arts.

For more information contact:

amanda@amandadawnchristie.ca

HAARP slated for research campaign

Our sixth research campaign is scheduled March 25-28, 2019.  Investigations range from practical to fundamental physical theory; updates will be posted on @uafhaarp a and @ctfallen

.  Learn more at (link: https://www.gi.alaska.edu/facilities/haarp) gi.alaska.edu/facilities/haa… #Alaska 

@uafairbanks

 @UAFGI

(Twitter/UAFHARRP)


To learn mre about HAARP go to: https://www.gi.alaska.edu/facilities/haarp 

From Twitter: Giles Letourneau

I will do a special live stream in Monday the 25th on my shortwave channel we will try to get as many people to chase the haarp signals (link: http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel/) youtube.com/officialswlcha…       it will start at 2100 UTC. https://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel/

HAARP slated for experimental broadcast

HAARP station WSPR in Alaska, will conduct experimental transmissions on July 30, 31 and on August 1, 2018.

The transmissions will be on 3592.6 AM at 2300-0000 UTC.
(R Pearson)

HAARP Goes Classical During New Experimental Campaign

ARRL
February 23, 2017

The just-concluded run of ionospheric investigations conducted from Alaska’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) observatory — quite likely the most powerful HF transmission facility in the world — revived the latent short-wave listener (SWL) lurking within most radio amateurs. Operating under Part 5 Experimental license WI2XFX, HAARP this month even aired some classical music as it conducted its first scientific research campaign since being taken over 18 months ago from the military by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Geophysical Institute.
UAF Space Physics Group Assistant Research Professor Chris Fallen, KL3WX, focused on two experiments — one called “airglow” that literally aimed to light up the ionosphere, and another to demonstrate the so-called “Luxembourg Effect,” first noticed on a 1930s Radio Luxembourg broadcast. Public engagement was part of his plan, and Fallen this week said the Twitter and e-mail feedback from his transmissions had been “fantastic,” and that his science campaign had become “quite an event.”
“Thank you for making a difference and advancing Amateur Radio as well,” Doug Howard, VE6CID, tweeted. Another Twitter follower enthused, “You’re running the coolest DX station in the world.” Fallen said he also received “a lot of great waterfalls,” as well as video and audio recordings from hams and SWLs.
Fallen started and stopped each experiment block with DTMF tones, transmitted in AM on or about 2.8 and 3.3 MHz, each channel fed with audio tones of different frequencies or, in the case of music, as a separate stereo channel. If the “Luxembourg Effect” is present, skywave-signal listeners would hear both channels combined on a single frequency; Fallen said the effect is easier to detect with tones. In addition to tones, he transmitted “a ‘dance track,’ a Pachelbel Canon arrangement, and a variation of ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat.’” Jeff Dumps, KL4IU, composed some of the music, and he arranged and performed all of it.
The CW “airglow” artificial aurora experiment followed the Luxembourg Effect transmissions. All week, Fallen despaired that the “ratty” ionosphere and cloud cover were diminishing his hopes for success with the artificial aurora experiments. But on the last night, he tweeted, “Seeing artificial airglow with the spectrometer. Film at 11.”
Fallen is now evaluating the results of his HAARP efforts. He said one listener posted “a most excellent” YouTube clip. He was not specific; several have been posted that document this week's experiments, including this one from Stephen Oleson, VE6SLP. Laurence Howell, KL7L, in Wasilla, Alaska, posted an audio file.
“The miracle of crowd sourcing!” Fallen said. “If only the Luxembourg Effect was more pronounced, but it is in the 3,300 kHz recording.”
Fallen has been working under a $60,000 National Science Foundation grant. “During campaigns, significant expenditures for fuel and personnel are required,” the grant abstract said. “Large start-up costs make HAARP experiments largely inaccessible to individual researchers unless multiple experiments and funding sources can be bundled together during a campaign of up to two-week duration.” According to the abstract, public participation would maximize “the broader impacts of the investigations.”
“HAARP again...perhaps sometime this summer!” Fallen tweeted on February 23. He has posted additional information on his “Gakona HAARPoon 2017” blog.
(Mike Terry/BDXC)
http://www.arrl.org/news/haarp-goes-classical-during-new-experimental-campaign
(photo/ARRL)

Alaska's HAARP facility open for business again

Under new management, Alaska's HAARP facility open for business again
by Ned Rozell

Instead of falling to the dozer blade, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program has new life.

In mid-August, U.S. Air Force General Tom Masiello shook hands with UAF's Brian Rogers and Bob McCoy, transferring the powerful upper-atmosphere research facility from the military to the university.

You may have heard of HAARP. Nick Begich wrote a book about it. Jesse Ventura tried to bully his way past the Gakona gate during a TV episode of "Conspiracy Theory." Muse recorded a live album, HAARP, at Wembley Stadium from a stage filled with antennas meant to resemble those standing on a gravel pad off the Tok Cutoff Road.

The science-fiction assertions of caribou walking backwards, human mind control and HAARP's ability to change the weather have made researchers wince. It's hard to describe a complicated instrument that sends invisible energy into a zone no one can see.

HAARP is a group of high-frequency radio transmitters powered by four diesel tugboat generators and one from a locomotive. The transmitters send a focused beam of radio-wave energy into the aurora zone. There, that energy can stimulate a speck of the electrical sun-Earth connection about 100 miles above our heads.

Additional story at:  https://www.adn.com/article/20150906/under-new-management-alaskas-haarp-facility-open-business-again 

(Rod Pearson, FL)

HAARP scientists creat 'artificial ionosphere'

An experiment that fires powerful radio waves into the sky has created a patch of ‘artificial ionosphere’, mimicking the uppermost portion of Earth’s atmosphere. The research has not only caused glowing dots to appear around these patches — it could also provide a new way to bounce radio signals around the globe.

The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), near Gakona, Alaska, has spent nearly two decades using radio waves to probe Earth’s magnetic field and ionosphere.

Todd Pedersen, a research physicist at the US Air Force Research Laboratory in Massachusetts, who leads the team that ran the experiment at HAARP, says that “Instead of depending entirely on the natural ionosphere to redirect radio waves or shortwave broadcasts,we are now getting the capability that we can actually produce our own little ionosphere”.
(R Netherlands)
Full report at Nature News http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091002/full/news.2009.975.html

Lunar Echo Experiment looking for participants

Posted on the Free Radio Net. Listen and report to MARE!

ChrisSmolinski
posted January 17, 2008 19:39

Lunar Echo Experiment looking for Amateur Radio Participants (Jan 17, 2008)

-- The HF Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska and the Long Wavelength Array (LWA) in New Mexico are planning an additional lunar echo experiment for January 18-19. Interested radio amateurs are invited to participate in this experiment by listening for the lunar echoes and submitting reports. On January 19, listen on 6.7925 MHz from 0500-0600 UTC, and on 7.4075 MHz from 0600-0700 UTC. On January 20, listen on 6.7925 MHz from 0630-0730 UTC, and on 7.4075 MHz from 0730-0830 UTC (depending on frequency occupancy at the time of operation, it may be necessary to adjust the frequency slightly). Based on previous experiments, investigators believe it should be possible to hear the lunar echoes with a standard communications receiver and a simple 40 meter dipole antenna. The format for the transmissions will follow a five second cycle beginning on the hour and repeating
continuously.

The HAARP transmitter will transmit for the first two seconds. The next three seconds will be quiet to listen for the lunar echo. Then HAARP will transmit again for two seconds, repeating the cycle for one hour. In the second hour, this five second repetitive cycle will be repeated at a different frequency. All transmissions from HAARP will be CW (no modulation). Depending on ionospheric conditions, it may or may not be possible to hear the HAARP transmission directly
via skywave propagation. Since HAARP will not be using any modulation, set your receiver on to CW mode to hear HAARP and the lunar echo.

Investigators are interested in receiving signal reports from radio amateurs who may be able to detect -- or not detect-- the lunar echo or the transmitted skywave pulse from HAARP. Submit reports via e-mail, and list your call sign and the type an location of your receiving equipment and antennas.
http://www.arrl.org/?artid=7958

(Source: Harold Frodge)