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The Luxembourg Effect, as it was later called, did not remain a mystery long.
The Dutch scientist named Tellegen figured out that the cross modulation of the radio
signals was a wave interaction caused by nonlinear characteristics of the
ionosphere.54 What this means to non-scientists is that reactions of the ionosphere
are unpredictable.

Then other scientists also realized that high power radio waves changed the
temperature and density of electrons in the ionosphere and that other radio signals
passing through the "modified" region were influenced. They experimented with wave
interaction for thirty years and eventually were certain that directing high power
waves into the ionosphere produced instabilities. Their tool was a transmitter –
array of antennae - called an ionospheric heater. (Press releases now refer to it as
an Ionospheric Research Instrument, but this book will call a heater a heater.) For
the most part, ionospheric heaters were operated by universities and research
institutes. Stanford Research Institute (SRI) International developed much of the high
frequency transmitting programs with money from the Defense Nuclear Agency.55
The newest, multi-purpose, tool being built for HAARP, however, is directed from
Phillips Air Force Base.

PENN STATE PIONEERED HEATERS
Anthony Ferraro, Ph.D., is a professor of electrical engineering at Penn
State university, a school that was a pioneer in experimenting with this knowledge.
In 1966, electrical engineers built a 500 kilowatt (kw) ionospheric heater at a site
near the campus, with an effective radiated power of 14 megawatts. Ferraro
developed a technique of beaming power with two transmitters at the same time, as
a way of probing. A high-power transmitter would heat a region of the lower
ionosphere while a weaker transmitter was pulsing. Thus the experimenters could
study the wave interaction.56 Penn State has been paid to do ionospheric modification
research continuously for 30 years.
Although they had a heateT before Alaska or Norway, the university had to
give up operating theirs after the neighbors complained. Firefighters in northeastern
Canada, foT example, had high frequency radios on board their airplanes. Although
Penn State's ionospheric heater was not on the same frequency, it was so strong that
the airplane radios would "kind of blank out", recalls Ferraro. "We developed
cooperative techniques; we would shut down whenever they wanted us to, but it
became so difficult that we just had to give up. Heaters went to remote areas like
Puerto Rico."57
The first large ionospheric heater in the United States was built at
Plattesville, Colorado, in the 1960's. In 1983 the transmitter and antenna array were
moved from Colorado to a site 40 km east of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Perm State
research team was among those who won contracts from the Navy to conduct
experiments using the High Power Auroral Stimulation (HIPAS) facility there.
54 Ray J. Lunnen, Jr. and Anthony J. Ferraro, "High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program",
Pennsylvania State in house publication.
55 National Telecommunications and information Administration memo, "NTIA Preliminary
Assessment of Air Force Ionospheric Research Instrument", Oct, 1, 1993.
56 Interview with John D. Matthews, electrical engineering department, Penn State,
57 Jeane Manning's May, 1995, interview with Tony Ferraro.