HAARP Shuts Down

[Pete, WA2CWA]

From the ARRL web site dated 7/15/13:

The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) — a subject of fascination for many hams and the target of conspiracy theorists and anti-government activists — has closed down. HAARP’s program manager, Dr James Keeney at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, told ARRL that the sprawling 35-acre ionospheric research facility in remote Gakona, Alaska, has been shuttered since early May...

Rest of the details here: http://www.arrl.org/news/haarp-facility-shuts-down


When I saw the picture below, I thought K1JJ was constructing a new HF antenna array:

[KA0HCP]

Shut down?  This is outrageous.  The government has a responsibility to be a reliable and constant source source of conspiracies!

[flintstone mop]

All of that money.
I'll take one of the transmitters.....
Fred

[Opcom]

Well I should as well confess. I won that big lottery about 5 months ago and bought it off Uncle for 10 cents on the dollar. I'll be changing my call sign soon and no greedy relatives and friends will bother me in AK. Top 40 and oldies, 60's acid rock at night, all AM & using the aurora for disco lights! Subsidized power, maintenance, and fuel as part of the agreement. They wanted it kept operational, in private hands, and available for access in case of a very a major emergency. Like the apocalypse. Easy decision.

[K5IIA]

And I thought my antenna was a cloud burner.

[W7TFO]

Will it now be "The ice-cave of doom/transmitter site"?

73DG

[K1JJ]

"$500,000 to run it at full capacity for 10 days."

And now they're talking about bull-dozing the whole site.  Typical gov't waste.   What a pity.


In my opinion it was a cloaked "Star-Wars" related experiment by the military to get some kind of edge on the Russians.  Imagine generating a plasma cloud that could fry the guidance system or engine control system of an ICBM incoming missile.  Alaska would be the perfect path to the USA.  I doubt they would spend that kind of money and effort on a hi-hi FB Jacques Cousteau adventure.....     Looks like it was a fail and they're moving on.


T

[W1RKW]

normal seasons are upon us. 

[Pete, WA2CWA]

summer heat is hot 

[Opcom]

keep an eye on governmentliquidations.com. If the gear gets auctioned piece by piece, that's where it will be. writing the representatives about 'waste' in conjunction with this gear being scrapped might push the better things away from the bulldozer.

[John K5PRO]

Each of the 96 or so transmitters under the wire array runs a pair of push pull 4CX10,000Ds in a unique high linearity amplifier built by Continental Electronics Corp. I remember seeing them lined up in test at the factory in 2007, the last batch of them.

[W3RSW]

We should apply for the drivers if in a separate package.  Ultra linyeear.

I'll miss HAARP. Sent in a reception report to them a few years back showing their signal on a timed/dated/location waterfall display copy.  Got a nice form letter back.