MODULATOR

Once a significant deformation in the auroral electrojet has been stimulated, the very pressure of the solar wind exaggerates the deformation. The clustre is pushed down to a lower altitude. If a significant succession of these is applied to the auroral ring current, then energetic streaming toward the ground will continue. Absorbing incoming energy, absorbing incoming momentum fi-om the solar wind, these travelling waves feel an enormous pressure which drives them groundward. If each radio pulse draws the electrojet down in successions, and if the “pull” frequency is timed just right, then the auroral current will begin flowing groundward. In their rapid orbit about the geomagnetic pole, the deformations fall into a literal tornadic stream toward the transmitter. This amplification effect continues until “contact” is made between the auroral stream and the transmitter site. Once contact is made, once charges begin streaming down from the auroral ring current, the transmitter site becomes recipient of an avalanche phenomenon which grows in magnitude beyond imaginable bounds. This dynamic MHD phenomenon is one in which applied wave radio forces are stored as charge clustres in a fluidic stream until a steady leakage has been achieved. The solar wind then “blows through” this leakage zone, providing an endless and incalculable current.

Early wireless operators and shortwave aficionadi had long observed the “fading” and “swinging” of strong radio signals because of undetermined natural variables. In certain strange cases of signal “swinging” or fading, stations were modulated by other, much smaller transmitters. Later investigation proved that these stations were conjugately aligned near the Arctic Circle. These furtive activities have been well documented in old radio journals. It was believed that the phenomenon could be used for the derivation of enormous energies directly from the auroral electrojet. Sounds impossible?

This very effect has been responsible for the several radio modulation phenomena which are completely relicmt on the fluidic auroral ring current for their effect. The effect occurs in the northern latitudes. Because of auroral “immersion”, small radio stations have accidentally modulated the transmissions of much larger stations at great distances. Widely spaced along the same latitude lines, completely opposite in power output, and widely divergent in operating frequencies, two such transmitters will appear to have “superimposed” their signals. What has occurred is a simple result of force application from the weak transmitter, to a mobile auroral fluid which contains the signals of the much larger transmitter. The smaller transmitter, usually never heard beyond a few miles distance, exercises a “valving action” on the auroral fluid. As a result, one hears the stronger signals with the weaker transmitter signal superimposed.

These amplifications can begin as nearly insignificant signals. Substantially immersed in the effect of an auroral current, an insignificant current can grow to very large and very influential proportions. The stimulating signal does not have to be strong at all in order to attract an auroral streamer to the ground. The modulations of powerful radio signals by small near-polar transmitters revealed the aurora as a dynamic energy amplifying stratum. An incredible incident occurred in Norwood, Ontario during the winter of 1929. The operation of a large radio receiver was suddenly and abruptly brought to a halt. Though the tubes were bright, the aerial sure, and the ground secure, reception very suddenly “went dead”. The gentleman went to a window in order to inspect his aerial, when he noticed that a bright aurora was in progress. Going outside to observe the aurora, he was shocked to find that an aurorcil streamer had completely surrounded his house, though maintaining a distance of several feet. It became a veritable curtain of streamers, many colors being simultaneously visible. The curtain appeared unsteady, its scintillating appearance continually “snapping”. In a visible display of enormous significance, the curtain was continually and visibly sparking to ground. Here was the source of his radio “disturbance”. The receiving oscillator, weak and insignificant, had successfully drawn an auroral streamer down to giound (Corliss).

To engineers and analysts, the DP is a straightforward application of commonly understood radio principles. It is a massive HF array, an immense 33 acre field of separate vertical towers. How these applications have been combined to form a distinct technology is not well perceived or suspected by engineers. Until the several noteworthy accidents which occurred in radio stations throughout the early part of the century, confidence that the aurora itself could be accessed as a very realistic natural energy source was viewed as insanity itself. Throughout the time span between World War II and the Cold War years, powerful back EMF effects were noted in certain near-polar radio stations when auroras soared overhead. The notion of tapping this natural immensity as a reservoir gradually developed in the minds of inspired engineers. The enormous current represented in the auroral ring may be drawn down from its seemingly fixed aerial throne. To bring down...Valhalla.