[Milsurplus] Propagation exercise

Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:12:03 -0600

Thanks Mike for jogging my 50 year old memory...The site was operated by the Air Weather
Group assigned to NEAC Headquarters.  They were responsible for the weather stations at
Torbay, McAndrew (Argentia), Earnest Harmon, Goose Bay, Thule, Sondrastorm, and Narsarsarack (Sp)

At 03:53 PM 1/6/2004 -0600, mikea wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:37:18PM -0600, Bob Wilder wrote:
>> Does anyone remember the program that transmitted a RF signal straight up to measure
>> the "E" and "F" layers.  There was a station at Pepperrell AFB, NFLD in the early 1950's
>> that transmitted a sweeping signal between about 3 to 15 Mcs into a half rhombic. Used to
>> raise havic with 75 and 20 meters.  The transmitter was down in the White Hills area
>> near the supply storage area. The program was called something like "Spherics".  I was
>> thinking back to my days at Pepperrell in the early 1950's.
>
>You're thinking of "sferics", the signals generated by weather. The 
>AF may well have used that as a cover name, or may have been studying
>sferics as part of the program. 
>
>The USGovt still does the propagation studies, and there are some rather 
>interesting premium-grade receivers used. The archives of the "Premium-RX"
>mailing list will have some stuff about them. 
>
>-- 
>Mike Andrews
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