posted 09-13-2003 06:54 PM            

What did you think of it? Was anything specific said as to the ongoing purpose(s) of this technology? Were other ionospheric heaters mentioned - i.e the facilities at Arecibo, Poker Flat, Tromsoe, to name just a few? Who sponsored this PAX special?

Were experiments of this type mentioned:

EISCAT 2003
Menlo Park, California Workshop
August 25-29

Heater-induced Artificial Airglow Observations at HAARP
http://transport.sri.com/eiscat2003-browse/abstractviewer.py?idnum=111

Excerpt:

.....Several optical campaigns have been conducted at the High Frequency Active Auroral Program (HAARP) in Gakona AK (62.39N, 145.15W) with the most recent campaign occurring in February 2003.

A very successful artificial airglow campaign was conducted from January 31 to February 19, 2002. 630 nm and/or 557.7 nm artificial airglow was observed on thirteen nights during the campaign.

Three cameras were located at HAARP -- an all-sky imager, a 60 degree field of view camera, and a telescopic imager (~1 degree field of view). Two cameras were located off-site for side view imaging -- one at Poker Flat Research Station, and the other alternating between Nenana AK and HIPAS. An SEE receiver was operated in Gakona and the Kodiak SuperDARN radar was run in a dedicated mode for part of the campaign. In addition, data was gathered throughout the campaign by the HAARP diagnostic instruments including a riometer, magnetometer, digisonde, ELF receiver, and TEC tomographic system.