QSL Card to Say - TX Power 3.6 Megawatt?! - QSLing Project HAARP 23 - January - 2008
Posted by k9zw in Amateur Radio, K9ZW Learned.Tags: Amateur Radio, EME, HAARP, K9ZW, LWA
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Today’s email had a nice confirmation of my email with my HAARP signal report:
Thank you for your participation in the HAARP-LWA Moon Bounce
experiments of 19 and 20 January 2008. We have received over 1500
reports from amateur radio hams throughout the USA and other
countries, including Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Italy, Russia,
Ukraine, Argentina, Australia, Marshall Islands, Hawaii, and Japan. We
apologize if we have not listed your country; we have not yet been
able to review all reports. These reports will help us to understand
the propagation characteristics of the HAARP skywave and lunar
echoes. As we review your reports we plan to post on the HAARP website
further information learned from these experiments.
If you would like a QSL card confirmation of your reception, please
send us your card with the reception details to our address:
HAARP Research Facility
Milepost 11.3, PO Box 271
Gakona, AK 99586
I am really curious what the Card will look like and what it will say for transmitter power?!
73
Steve
K9ZW
Previous Articles on the HAARP-LWA EME Project:
Can You Hear Me Now? - Listening for EME Reflections of Project HAARP
I Could Hear You! - Listening for EME Reflections of Project HAARP
I Could Hear You! - Listening for EME Reflections of Project HAARP 20 - January - 2008
Posted by k9zw in Amateur Radio, DX Interests, K9ZW Learned.Tags: Amateur Radio, EME, HAARP, K9ZW, LWA
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Easy to hear!
Here is my report to the project:
Groundwave carrier came in at 579 level, with EME echo about 427 on 6.7925 wide passband general receiver mode (CW).
heard from about 06:35 to 06:43 - can now hear again 06:48
Station TenTec Jupiter listening on a 1/2 Sloper (basically an inverted-L configuration).
At first quit listening when QRM about 12 minutes in covered everything for a few minutes.
73
Steve
K9ZW
Manitowoc, WI 54220
Coordinates 44.095713 -87.71106
Maidenhead Grid EN64dc
Randy K7AGE has done a fantastic Video on the EME project:
Hope you heard them too!
73
Steve
Can You Hear Me Now? - Listening for EME Reflections of Project HAARP 18 - January - 2008
Posted by k9zw in Amateur Radio, K9ZW Learned.Tags: Amateur Radio, EME, HAARP, K9ZW, LWA
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This opportunity to participate in a major EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) Project is too good not to pass on.
Click here for direct link to the YouTube Film on HAARP
The ARRL has the most useful press release on the HAARP-LWA EME project and we Radio Amateurs can help out:
ARLX002 Lunar Echo Experiment looking for Amateur Radio Participants
SB SPCL @ ARL $ARLX002
ARLX002 Lunar Echo Experiment looking for Amateur Radio Participants
ZCZC AX02
QST de W1AW
Special Bulletin 2 ARLX002
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT January 17, 2008
To all radio amateurs
SB SPCL ARL ARLX002
ARLX002 Lunar Echo Experiment looking for Amateur Radio Participants
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 0500-0600z, and on 7.4075
MHz from 0600-0700z. On January 20, listen on 6.7925 MHz from
0630-0730z and on 7.4075 MHz from 0730-0830z (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 to mbreport@haarp.alaska.edu and list your
call sign and the type and location of your receiving equipment and
antennas.
NNNN
/EX
Here are some related links:
Information About the HAARP - LWA Moon Bounce Experiment
Article on the LWA (Long Wavelength Array) Portion of the Project
Article on the HAARP-LWA EME Project
Hope you can help the project by having a listen from your station this weekend.
73
Steve
K9ZW
