Lui, Gough / VK2FGYL
First and foremost, I would like to thank you for your interesting program and` use of HAARP to transmit audio and images as experiments like these are often inspiring and educational, especially in regards to shortwave radio. Your experiments have captured my interest and I hope to be able to receive your transmissions over the coming days as well.
My name is Gough Lui and I am a technology enthusiast (goughlui.com, @lui_gough), a radio amateur (VK2FGYL), a shortwave listener/utility station monitor and an interdisciplinary engineer (PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, B.E. in Photovoltaics and Solar Energy Hons I). While I live near Sydney, Australia, due to the time of day, reception of your
program is unlikely at my location, made worse by a high noise floor.
Instead, I have leveraged the network of publicly available KiwiSDR receivers owing to their more suitable location and better receiving antennas to attempt reception of your 0030-0130UTC program on 26th March 2019. Reception was attempted across a total of nine different receivers, although a majority of them were unable to resolve any signal clearly above their noise floor that could not be mistaken for interference from other stations.
I did, however, have success with KPH Maritime Radio Station's KiwiSDR (California, USA) which clearly resolved the SSTV images from Movement VIII on 7900kHz in AM mode (audio link):
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I also had success with KK6PR's KiwiSDR (Oregon, USA) which clearly copied the NATO phonetic alphabet story of Movement VIII received on 8000kHz in AM mode (audio link): "My grandfather found a thing in the woods. A box with cameras hanging from a parachute. It came from the CIA. The DND took it."
There is a small amount of leak-through of the SSTV resolved on KK6PR's reception, which is illustrated in my GIF animation:
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Reception Reports
Expand a row below for details.
| Date | Movement | Media | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expand | I. Prelude / II. Introductions to the Ghost / III. Methodologies in Music and Morse |
Time
00:30:00
– 00:41:00
Note
Reception was attempted across a total of nine different receivers, although a majority of them were unable to resolve any signal clearly above their noise floor that could not be mistaken for interference from other stations. |
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| Expand | IV. Saxophonal Stochastic Ghost Resonances |
Time
00:41:30
– 00:46:30
Note
Reception was attempted across a total of nine different receivers, although a majority of them were unable to resolve any signal clearly above their noise floor that could not be mistaken for interference from other stations. |
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| Expand | V. Wolves Chasing the Ghost |
Time
00:47:00
– 00:52:00
Note
Reception was attempted across a total of nine different receivers, although a majority of them were unable to resolve any signal clearly above their noise floor that could not be mistaken for interference from other stations. |
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| Expand | VI. The Mind and the MRI |
Time
00:52:30
– 01:02:30
Note
Reception was attempted across a total of nine different receivers, although a majority of them were unable to resolve any signal clearly above their noise floor that could not be mistaken for interference from other stations. |
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| Expand | VII. Letters and Numbers |
Time
01:03:00
– 01:09:00
Note
Reception was attempted across a total of nine different receivers, although a majority of them were unable to resolve any signal clearly above their noise floor that could not be mistaken for interference from other stations. |
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| Expand | IX. Spy Cameras from the Sky and a Mystery Box in the Woods |
Time
01:16:00
– 01:26:00
Note
Reception was attempted across a total of nine different receivers, although a majority of them were unable to resolve any signal clearly above their noise floor that could not be mistaken for interference from other stations. |
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| Expand | X. Not with a Bang but with a WSPR |
Time
01:26:00
– 01:29:00
Note
Reception was attempted across a total of nine different receivers, although a majority of them were unable to resolve any signal clearly above their noise floor that could not be mistaken for interference from other stations. |
| Date | Movement | Media | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expand | VIII. Pictures and Words | Audio Audio |
Time
01:09:30
– 01:15:30
Frequency (MHZ)
7.90, 8.00
Antenna
Inverted Vee at about 30 ft. running North to South
Receiver
KPH Maritime Radio Station's KiwiSDR, KK6PR's KiwiSDR
Note
Reception was attempted across a total of nine different receivers, although a majority of them were unable to resolve any signal clearly above their noise floor that could not be mistaken for interference from other stations. I did, however, have success with KPH Maritime Radio Station's KiwiSDR (California, USA) which clearly resolved the SSTV images from Movement VIII on 7900kHz in AM mode (audio link): <kph2.jpg> I also had success with KK6PR's KiwiSDR (Oregon, USA) which clearly copied the NATO phonetic alphabet story of Movement VIII received on 8000kHz in AM mode (audio link): "My grandfather found a thing in the woods. A box with cameras hanging from a parachute. It came from the CIA. The DND took it." There is a small amount of leak-through of the SSTV resolved on KK6PR's reception, which is illustrated in my GIF animation: <airglow-anim.gif> |