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The language in some documents hints that an element of mine is bigger
than yours competition goaded the Americans to build a facility that would be three
times more powerful than anything the Russians or the Germans have. Here we must
make it clear that an ionospheric heater isn't judged by height. It may look like a five
or ten acre field of fifty-foot high crosses (technically called crossed dipoles) in a
square arrangement. The larger the area covered by antennae, the more powerful.

Although they are without an ionospheric heater, Penn State still has a
respectably sized department involved in ionospheric modification - "about ten
faculty and maybe 20 grad students". Formerly called the ionospheric research lab, it
has become Communications and Space Sciences.
"It used to be very large, and very interdisciplinary with math, chemistry
and physics people in it. Now it's primarily electrical engineering," Ferraro said.
* * *

John D. Matthews is a physicist who finds himself in the electrical
engineering department at Penn State because of consolidation of departments. His
specialty is the area of the ionosphere down at about the 100 kilometer altitude.
During a phone interview he noted that the main radar (for high frequency ionospheric
heating experiments) at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, can significantly heat the lower
ionosphere as well as the upper. The heating is a Tesult of a high poweT "diagnostic"
instrument. Arecibo is currently getting a major upgrade.

Most of the heating is done at around 200 kilometers altitude - called the
Lower F region of the ionosphere - because it is easier to heat that higher region to
the maximum.

Penn State got in on the ground floor with HAARP. In 1991 several
departments at the university - the Applied Research Laboratory, Computer
Engineering and Engineering Electronic Design Services - combined resources to go
after a desirable contract. They were among the winners. Penn State, APTI and
Raytheon Corporation were each given contracts to study how to design the HAARP
facility. Afterward, APTI invited Penn State to join it, along with SRI International
and Ahtna Inc., an Alaskan corporation, as a team. The Office of Naval Research
chose their team to build and demonstrate the powerful ionospheric heater near
Gakona, Alaska. "The capability will be further expanded to its final world class
performance capability in 1996."58

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Ionospheric heaters are a very specialized area of research. "There are two
groups in the Soviet Union, several people in Europe and maybe ten people in the
states. That's about it," said Sacha Koustov, a Canadian/Russian ionospheric
scientist at the University of Saskatchewan. Like most of the atmospheric scientists
interviewed, he was not familiar with the HAARP literature.
58 Hay J. Lunnen, Jr. and Anthony J. Ferraro, "High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program",
Pennsylvania State in house publication,