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"The initial idea, not connected with my work, was to create an artificial
northern Lights," said Tony Ferraro. "There was not sufficient power to do that."

Why make an artificial aurora borealis? He replied that the plasma
physicists wanted to control the northern lights to learn more about the physics
which created them. Ferraro instead came in and used the facility to modulate the
electrojet. "These currents can be modulated by high power transmitters so that they
could be made to act as little antennas." Ferraro explained that in their natural state
the ionospheric currents are direct current (DC), as is the electricity from a battery.
"By modulating that atmospheric region from these high power transmitters we can
convert (the electrojet current), in a small volume, into alternating currents.
Alternating current flowing in a wire is an antenna. Now, these are not flowing in
wires; they're flowing in space. But it's the same principle. We can create a little
antenna."
The experimenters wanted to generate Very Low Frequency (VLF) and
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves from that antenna in the upper
sky, because VLF and ELF waves can travel almost around the world with very little
loss. They generated the waves, "...but not strong enough to be of practical
interest...That led to the Navy and Air Force funding an even larger ionospheric
modifier - HAARP." HAARP is not only meant for generating the low frequencies that
would occur with a strong electrojet, Ferraro said. "It has a wide, diverse utilization."
The operators sitting at HAARPs instrument control/monitoring console
indeed have a versatile tool at their fingertips. It includes a waveform generator
capable of sending a wide variety of modulated signals to the antenna array. Then the
operators can whip the narrow beam of radio frequency (RF) energy around in the sky
at will. An article from a Penn State publication says "array control permits slewing
the beam to arbitrary locations within the overhead 30 degree cone within ten
microseconds."

Visual displays tell the operators how the experiment is progressing, and
local and remote sensors - incoherent scatter radar, riometers and ionsounders and
other esoteric sounding apparatus - monitor the ionosphere.

The Penn State publication article adds that after the major parts of HAARP
are evaluated in the field, "a comprehensive series of tests will be completed as a
demonstration of the IRI (Ionospheric Research Instrument) capability to the user
community. The goals of HAARP are ambitious, nevertheless, state of the art
capability will allow us to realize this powerful scientific research instrument which
will probe the Alaskan sky."

Long before HAARP was conceived, the former Soviet Union built more
powerful (one gigawatt at Zelenogradskaya near Moscow) heaters than the west, and
involved more scientists in ionosphere changing experiments than the West. More
recently, Max Planck Institute in Germany built a heater at Tromso, Norway. In 1991
the Europeans caught up to the Russians by beaming one gigawatt of effective
radiated power from Tromso.