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To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (15843)	10/11/2002 11:19:05 AM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 80950

If any of this was stuff valid you could sure turn it into positive actions that would aid man not harm man.

To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (15843)	10/11/2002 3:27:14 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80950

Al, you will be surprised to know that I'm actually quite familiar with the Woodpecker but not with the aspects mentioned in the Rense article which are quite new to me and, of course, fantastic in the extreme. In fact, I have an idea that someone has a very fertile imagination. As I have mentioned previously, I'm a radio ham and the Woodpecker was a big feature of the ham frequency spectrum in the 1970s, throughout the world. In fact, it was a damn pest which affected all short wave communication, especially on the 20 metre amateur band. Simply, it was a very powerful signal which made a terrible racket going "clack, clack, clack....." and which moved from one end of the band to the other and back again going on for minutes or hours. At first no-one knew what it was but later we were told it was over-the-horizon radar emanating from the USSR. It was our understanding that it was an experimental transmission and that the ham frequencies were used because the communication there was unimportant --- except to hams, of course! Initially it would chase us off the band but later when we heard it we all attacked it by following it across the band and transmitting on top of it. And then, as quickly as it appeared, it went away, and was never heard again after about 1980. Here are some refs to the Woodpecker which I know about. sciencenet.org.uk dspace.dial.pipex.com sdc.org