The US Air Force has given the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility in Gakona, Alaska, a death row reprieve of sorts. The Secretary of the Air Force told Alaska Sen Lisa Murkowski July 2 that it is “willing to slow the closure process and defer irreversible dismantling of the transmitter site” until May of 2015. Those pushing for HAARP to remain open as a scientific r…
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By Gary Hoffman, KB0H
Contributing Editor
Some years ago, my wife Nancy and I dabbled at putting together electronic kits. Our efforts weren’t entirely successful, so we drifted on to other interests. In the back of my mind, I always had the notion that we would return to kit-building, but we never did. Recently, however, an opportunity presented itself, and once again I found myself squinting at…
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