QSL Playing cards: Ghosts within the Air Glow (G1TÆG) & Excessive-Frequency Lively Auroral Analysis Program (HAARP)
This publish will likely be about receiving QSL (reception acknowledgement) playing cards from Amanda Daybreak Christie (VE9OHM), a transmission artist from Canada who was accountable for the “Ghosts in the Air Glow” program. Such experiments often are run for a restricted schedule, so it’s enjoyable to attempt to obtain this system earlier than it vanishes. This set of QSL playing cards covers the transmissions of the primary motion from March 2019, delayed by each sickness and COVID-19 pandemic.
The Arrival
Good outdated “snail mail” – full with an Air Mail sticker too. How very quaint – the one factor that may full the look can be an precise stamp, however I suppose that’s beginning to go by the wayside as properly. Canada Publish prints labels – apparently this letter is dated fifteenth November and was postmarked by an Australian sorting workplace on twenty fourth November. Postage was CAD$3.88 or about AU$4.24 (not low-cost)! I don’t know what the chevrons imply, however apparently they don’t seem to be to be lined …
Inside have been 4 Ghosts within the Air Glow playing cards, one for every day of reception.
As you possibly can inform, no effort was spared in recording the reception particulars on these playing cards. This was much more element than I had anticipated to be crammed on the playing cards – even one card for all days would have been passable.
What was sudden, was to additionally obtain …
… playing cards from the HAARP facility as properly. This facility could be very distinctive in some ways, however has additionally been the topic of assorted conspiracies. Regardless, as a little bit of a scientist myself, I really feel this can be a very distinctive card to obtain.
Additionally, in the identical trend, I acquired one card for every day … very beneficiant!
Though, by the second day, I had turn out to be “Goug” … I suppose this makes the cardboard much more valuable. The hassle concerned is simply superb and properly past my expectation.
Despite the lengthy wait, I’m extraordinarily glad that these did come by means of in the long run and recognize the entire effort (and postage) that went into it.
Conclusion
As a lot as AM shortwave broadcasting might be on the fringes of being utterly ancient-tech for these within the developed world, it’s enjoyable to nonetheless preserve related the interest of radio and see it getting used for varied experiments and inventive means. As a lot as I hope the world doesn’t find yourself in a spot the place we have to make use of shortwave/HF as our sole technique of communication (as that often means one thing very apocalyptic has doubtless occurred), it’s good to know that the underlying physics behind it work, simply as they’ve for hundreds of years.
Whereas this card took some time to be made and despatched to me, I recognize it very a lot as one of many few bodily QSL playing cards which might be nonetheless being issued on this age that I’ve been lucky sufficient to have claimed. It could have been a gargantuan effort to get QSL playing cards out for all of the listeners for this system – not counting the truth that one other motion was only in the near past broadcast earlier this yr. Maybe there will likely be one other set of playing cards to reach …
Bonus: Extra Sudden Arrivals
Because it seems, I additionally managed to get one other sudden supply, this time from element14 for his or her “Prepared for Tomorrow 2022” Crusing Auto-Pilot competitors. Learn all about it here.
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