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HAARP facility in danger of being dismantled</h1><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ARRL report the<span> </span><strong>High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program</strong>(HAARP) facility near Gakona, Alaska, could be decommissioned and dismantled altogether unless the US Air Force can find a new prime contractor to take over the 35-acre facility<span> </span><br>
<br>They cite a story in the Alaska Depatch which says the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks is hoping to pull together a plan to run the facility, which long has been a subject of fascination for hams and the target of conspiracy theorists. The facility shut down last year and, with the exception of some contract-funded research, it has essentially remained in standby.</p>
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<td><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/1526144_728218923868296_1627566412482538182_n.jpg" width="610" height="407"></td></tr><tr><td><div align="center"><font color="#999999">The HAARP antenna array</font></div>
</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Money is one major issue. The US Air Force Research Laboratory wants to see HAARP survive, “but only if someone else pays the bills, estimated at about $5 million a year,” the article said.<br>
<br>Read the full ARRL story at<span> </span><br><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.arrl.org/news/haarp-facility-in-danger-of-being-dismantled" target="_blank">http://www.arrl.org/news/haarp-facility-in-danger-of-being-dismantled</a><br>
<br>The UK company BAE Systems only completed work on the HAARP facility in 2007 and it was used to achieve 7 MHz Moonbounce (EME)<br><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2008/haarp.htm" target="_blank">http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2008/haarp.htm</a><br>
<a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2008/moonbounce_video.htm" target="_blank">http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2008/moonbounce_video.htm</a><br><br>2013 - HAARP facility shuts down<br>
<a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/july2013/haarp_facility_shuts_down.htm" target="_blank">http://www.southgatearc.org/news/july2013/<br>haarp_facility_shuts_down.htm</a><br>
<br>Alaska Depatch<span> </span><br><a style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none" href="http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140409/air-force-predicts-summer-shutdown-powerful-haarp-transmitter-alaska">http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140409/air-force-predicts-summer-shutdown-powerful-haarp-transmitter-alaska</a></p>
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