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Ghosts in the Air Glow is an ionospheric transmission art project using the HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument to play with the liminal boundaries of Earth's atmosphere and outer space. Air Glow (artificial aurora) and Luxembourg experiments (ionospheric mixing) will be paired with the AM modulation of Narrow Band Television (NBTV) video art, Slow Scan Television (SSTV) images, 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 online through the project's website.
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Keep in mind I am just a listener, and while I have worked professionally in the world of RF for most of my adult life I have never had anything first hand to do with HAARP. The following are just my observations.
From March 26 to March 29, 2019, HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) conducted a series of experiments. While an interesting radio happening, this is not particularly uncommon, occasionally HAARP shakes the dusts off and does a few days of science.
But this series had a bit of a twist over past experiments.
To do some of the science it does HAARP uses sweeping tones, stepped tones, continuous tones, or CW. And by CW I mean Continuous Wave, an unmodulated carrier transmitted for extended periods, not Morse Code, as the term CW has become in the radio world. And while these types of modulation are common with HAARP, they are not the only things that would get the job done.
Amanda Dawn Christie, an "interdisciplinary artist" ( About — amanda dawn christie ) was closely involved this time. And she added a different twist to the typical HAARP experiments. Instead of the more canned techniques most often (but not always, HAARP has done some odd audio before) used in the past for Air Glow and Luxembourg types of experiments, she brought a series of art based audio and images.
The series was called "Ghost in the Air Glow". It consisted of 10 Movements, adding up to about one hour of total air time each of the four days. Descriptions and schedules here Ghosts in the Air Glow
Don't take it wrong, for the most part pretty standard HAARP science appears to have been done, but the content was a bit more varied than typical.
I made SDR based I/Q recordings of every minute of each transmission for all 4 days. Unfortunately, propagation and other variables made some of the segments pretty poor recordings. But over that time I did manage to get at least one decent copy of each of the 10 Movements.
I have converted them to video recordings and uploaded them to my Youtube channel ( FirstToken ). Any transmission involving 2 frequencies (such as the several Luxembourg experiments) are recorded using stereo sound, so that the lower RF frequency is in the left audio channel, and the upper RF frequency is in the right audio channel
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