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Steve - WB3HUZ
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« Reply #25 on: October 24, 2008, 07:01:05 PM »
I did follow the money. DART is being funded by the Federal Government, not business. Seems people are looking for as boogey man without doing even a modicum of research.

http://earmarks.omb.gov/2008-earmarks/earmark_344309.html


It's highly unlikely that any interference would have ever occurred but the ARRL had to hype it up in order to show they were doing something. Much ado about nothing.
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« Reply #26 on: October 24, 2008, 08:02:02 PM »
It was really a plan to remotely power the black helicopters that are hovering over the new oil fields, making sure the prehistoric beasts don't come out of hibernation and destroy evidence of the Kennedy assassination ...

Bill, whose tin-foil hat is tuned to the secret frequency so he'll get the word about the next comet that's leaving for home.
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« Reply #27 on: October 25, 2008, 12:13:15 AM »
Hmmmph!
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« Reply #28 on: October 25, 2008, 01:03:32 PM »
Here's more on the DART experiment

http://klixie.com/26mhz/index.php?id+13

My thoughts on the whole situation is that it is a waste of time anyway. Why use shortwave to cover Alaska when satellite or a MW groundwave could probably cover the state with about 2 transmitters. And why do they need a 600 kw ERP? 5 to 10 kw into a simple dipole could cover the whole state, just with the groundwave.
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« Reply #29 on: October 25, 2008, 03:41:10 PM »
Not likely. A dipole will yield little or no groundwave. You need a vertical for that.
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« Reply #30 on: October 25, 2008, 04:56:42 PM »
They could place it close to the ground and use it for NVIS, I'm getting that confused with a groundwave, that's what I'm doing. But I always thought that verticals were for low angle DX work( wait a minute, I guess groundwave is a low angle). I better stop before I go crazy>
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« Reply #31 on: October 25, 2008, 08:09:56 PM »
Picked up a random ex-libris copy of Popular Mechanics, was the April 08 issue, but I don't think this item was "april fools"...

page 14.

"Round Trip Moonbeam"

3.6MW "radar signal" bounced off the moon at 7.4mHz, generated by HAARP.

Received in New Mexico...

FYI

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« Reply #32 on: October 25, 2008, 09:36:44 PM »
EME at 7.4mhz? I thought the ionosphere would have reflected a signal at that frequncy, not let it pass through.
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« Reply #33 on: October 25, 2008, 09:56:01 PM »
It was received by hams all over the place, including many forum members.

http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=13338.0

Quote from: BEAR on October 25, 2008, 08:09:56 PM
Picked up a random ex-libris copy of Popular Mechanics, was the April 08 issue, but I don't think this item was "april fools"...

page 14.

"Round Trip Moonbeam"

3.6MW "radar signal" bounced off the moon at 7.4mHz, generated by HAARP.

Received in New Mexico...

FYI

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« Reply #34 on: October 25, 2008, 10:06:49 PM »
No Shelby,  It depends on the angle the wave front hits the region...

At zero angle (ie, straight up) it passes thru...

I was one of the many that listened to that sesson with HAARP...
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