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HAARP Thanks Amateur Radio Operators for Help with Latest Experiment

  01/13/2023

  On Tuesday, December 27, 2022, the High-frequency Active Auroral
  Research Program (HAARP) conducted its latest ionospheric experiment of
  bouncing radio signals off an asteroid passing near Earth's orbit (see
  the [17]ARRL News story from December 23, 2022).
  A frosty landscape surrounds antennas at the High-frequency Active
  Auroral Research Program site in Gakona, Alaska, on December 20, 2022.
  [JR Ancheta, UAF/GI, photo]
  Amateur radio operators and radio astronomy enthusiasts were invited to
  monitor the test and send their results to HAARP for analysis. While
  the results of the experiment will take several weeks, Jessica
  Matthews, HAARP Program Manager, said the help was greatly appreciated.
  "So far we have received over 300 reception reports from the amateur
  radio and radio astronomy communities from six continents who confirmed
  the HAARP transmission."
  HAARP officials say the results of the experiment could aid efforts to
  defend Earth from larger asteroids that could cause significant damage.
  "We will be analyzing the data over the next few weeks and hope to
  publish the results in the coming months," said Mark Haynes, lead
  investigator on the project and a radar systems engineer at NASA's Jet
  Propulsion Laboratory in California. "This experiment was the first
  time an asteroid observation was attempted at such low frequencies," he
  said. "This shows the value of HAARP as a potential future research
  tool for the study of near-Earth objects."
  The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) operates [18]HAARP under an
  agreement with the Air Force, which developed and owned HAARP but
  transferred the research instruments to UAF in August 2015.

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    * [19]A frosty landscape surrounds antennas at the High-frequency
      Active Auroral Research Program site in Gakona, Alaska, on December
      20, 2022. [JR Ancheta, UAF/GI, photo] A frosty landscap...

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