What Are These Antenna?

No mind control or chemtrails involved.

At a guess, based on their location and orientation, it's a radioscience effort looking at the Aurora Australis.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Interesting.

But is the RF power output stong enough to cause heating of the ionosphere such as is performed by the HAARP in Alaska, etc?

Assuming they may want to do that.

Mark Granger

Unlikely - it looks more like a passive phased array antenna intended for detecting signals from the ionosphere. If they were transmitting then there would be a fence around it if only to stop it cooking conspiracy fruit cakes who could use a lesson in using a video camera!

They may well transmit a pulse and detect the reflection off aurora.

Mind control. The intent is to make the entire world talk funny and dring bad beer like the Aussies do.

See the above URL previously posted. The stated xmit power is: Total Peak Power: 9.6kW Mean Power: 200W Radiated Power: 12.5W in main beam direction With such a low duty cycle, it's unlikely to heat anything. Ham radio HF operators radiate more RF power.

I guess the problem is that anything that looks like an array of antennas is now assumed to be used for atmospheric heating and considered a danger to the environment. So, if you're looking for big HF antenna arrays, the cold war era HF radar arrays should be a good start: That's 1,000,0000 watts into some huge amount of gain to produce 100 Megawatts EIRP. Now, that's power. Too bad they were scrapped in

They appear to be members of a log periodic array. That means that they are relatively broadband. Their sizes indicate that they are probably meant for the HF or MF bands. The side-by-side arrangement of the antennas suggests that they are phased and that they have a narrow beam in the horizontal plane.

I did not notice any provisions for rotation. If the azimuth is known, some clue as to its purpose might be suggested.

It's already working with one or two posters here. Why others don't just kf them I don't know.

NT

I've been told that nobody drinks Fosters in Australia, and they only brew it for export. That makes them merely evil, but not actually insane.

Further

Using Google Earth, I think the azimuth is due south (it could be north, though). There are 16 of them. That would boost the gain 12dB over one antenna. Pretty significant.

The shadows (about 65' long) indicate (on the date of the imagery at that location) that the antennas are about 45 feet high. This makes economical sense, I think, if one is not concerned about the elevated main radiation lobe above ground.

Heck, a lot of ham operators operate CW and SSB and RTTY in those same HF ranges, at average levels far higher than that. Here in the U.S. we're allowed up to 1500 watts peak power.

HAARP apparently did up to 3.6 *mega*watts.

The military (in many countries) has been doing HF-band "over the horizon" radar for decades. The "Russian woodpecker" Duga-3 system is reported as having sent pulses of up to 10 megawatts EIRP.

Doesn't sound like the Bruny system is anything particularly new, unusual, or particularly powerful for systems of its type.

I can't recall where I saw it, but some wag claimed that government mind control satellites are real, and extremely effective, but a programming glitch limits them to transmitting a signal which is 90% "Mind control satellites do not exist" and 10% "You should care about the Kardashians".

Finally, a post to make reading this newsgroup worthwhile. :)

Here's one patent incident for which I won't forgive Australia: "How the Aussie government "invented WiFi" and sued its way to $430 million": I wanted to boycott Australian products, but discovered that I wasn't drinking, using, buying, or specifying anything from Australia. This is one of the few examples of a government agency that became a patent troll.

Like so many things in this world, little is as it claims.

NT

They even invented the wheel:

I don't like Foster's.. too sweet. When I was in Oz, (Perth) I drank the "black duck"... Swan Lager.

But you have to be careful, they brew a potent beer down under.

George H.

Well, it has some uses, as in "The doctor said I could only have one beer a day." ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

We just opened an Asahi Super Dry in a gigantic bottle. Really tasty to us, but not your kind of beer.

The Houdini resealer things really work. None of the others seem to.