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SKRUNDA, Pulsed EMF (154-162 Hz) Mass Launches of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles Komsomolsk-Na-Amure from the Territory of the US 8 Hz 50 Hz 100 Hz 50 Khz 50 MHz 190 MHz 500 MHz 800 MHz 2,5 Ghz over-the-horizon radar (OTH) Three Steel Yard OTH radar The Soviet Union began work on over-the-horizon By 1980 the Russians were reportedly operating three [OTH] radar in the late 1950s, given the potential of OTHR transmitters, including two OTHR transmitters RussianRussian woodpecwoodpeckerker this techology to surpass the range of conventional near Kiev (Chernobyl) and Minsk (Gomel ?), and a third early warning radars. The focus was on backscatter transmitter in Siberia focused on their northern flank radars that would provide warning of missile launches which became operational in 1979. By the mid-1990s by detecting alterations in ionosphere propogation at least the two radars located in Ukraine appeared to caused by the depletion of ions by missile exhaust have been deactivated. plumes. These radars had to reliably detect group and SKRUNDA, pulsed EMF (154-162 Hz) mass launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles Komsomolsk-na-Amure from the territory of the US. The radars are reportedly An over-the-horizon radar was built at Komsomolsk- known as STEEL YARD or STEEL WORKS by the na-Amure. Along with the facility at Gomel (southeast Western intelligence community. The Steel Yard OTH of Minsk) and Chernobyl (near Kiev), the other Steel Radar Wifi Cell phone began operations in 1975-1976. Yard located at Komsomolsk-na-Amur provided One of the Steel Yard OTH was the Chernobyl-2 OTH complementary coverage of the United States. station (C-2). This radar was the biggest directional HF Chernobyl antennas in the world. The height of the bigger antenna was 150 m, the length appr. 500 m. The Gomel height of the smaller antenna was 90 m. Within the Komsomolsk-on-Amur radius of less than 60 km from this station known as "Chernobyl-2"(C-2) were found two other stations that seem in satellite photographs almost similar in high power lines radiation RF/MW radiation, Skrunda FM/TV Tower, Riga microwaves radiation appearance,namely "Lyubech-1"(d =58 km) and "Goncharovsk-1"in Ukraine (d =54 km).(source : The Woody Woodpecker Story by Väinö Lehtoranta). The state-owned electric HISTORY The Skrunda station created a There is robust evidence that RF/MW radiation is genotoxic. Because CELL PHONES company, Latvenergo, The small town of Skrunda, 150 km strong electromagnetic several previous studies have associated residential RF/MW exposure with In 2005, Latvia imported 525,500 cellulars owns 97 percent of the from Riga in Latvia, was the site of radiation zone. During recent adult and childhood cancers, there is a scientific basis for the a priori (610,100 in 2006) at the total value of What is Woodpecker ? Control the air of United States generation capacity in two HEN HOUSE radars built in the years several studies on impact hypothesis that chronic exposure to RF/MW radiation causes cancers at 45.798 million lats. At present there are The term Woodpecker refers to the high-power OTH Chernobyl-2, also known as "FAR" (Phased Grid of Latvia. Transportation of 1960s. Construction of the Dnestr-M of radiation on environment residential exposure levels. Cancer is biologically plausible if the disease four mobile operators working in Latvia. radar which operated in Europe during the years 1976 Antennas) or Duga-2 was the secret soviet army electricity within Latvia is radar, which was stationed in the and humans have been agent is genotoxic. RF/MW radiation significantly enhances chromosome latvia wireless LMT, Tele2 and Bite Latvija provide – 1986. The signal from the Chernobyl-2 OTH station object, aimed to control the air of United States. Warning ! handled by seven regional trans-polar area (RO-1 in performed in the territory of aberrations in many studies (notes 1 to 19). Four of these studies show services in the GSM/UMTS standard and Warning ! Warning ! (C-2) is pulse-modulated at a rate of several times a electricity High voltage transmission networks, all Murmansk) and Latvia (RO-2 in Skrunda Station. At the same dose-response relationships (notes 7, 8, 13, 17), and seven show significant non-ionizing radiation Triatel offers services in the alternative second [most sources state 10 pulses per second], owned by Latvenergo. Riga), began in 1963-1964. On 15 time biological beings were micronuclei formation (5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 19). Nine studies from five CDMA standard. sounding like a woodpecker. The radar was observed Latvenergo operates two February 1971, the RO-2 node was prohibited from staying for independent laboratories show direct DNA strand breakage (20-24). One of strenci Ventspils limbazi using three repetition rates: 10 Hz, 16 Hz and 20 Hz. A weather modification project ? CHP sources supplying put into operation, the first radar longer periods of time in a 300 these studies shows a dose-response (21) and another shows an extremely ventspils WIRELESS valmiera The most common rate was 10 Hz, while the 16 Hz The Soviet weather modification project is referred to Valmiera district heat to Riga - TEC-1 station of the system. This date is m zone area around locators significant DNA strand breakage, p<0.0001, at a very low exposure level, aluksne In 1993, the Latvian academic network talsi cesis and 20 Hz modes were rather rare. The pulses as the Woodpecker system. It involves the (192 MWe, 616 MWt) and considered to be an official during the operation of the 0.0024 W/kg. Two of the DNA studies (24) claim that their data does not riga gulbene LATNET began experimenting with low Riga sigulda transmitted by the woodpecker had a wide transmissions of extreme low frequency (ELF) waves TEC-2 (390 MWe, 1 121 beginning of Russian early warning station. In the direction of show that RF/MW radiation produces DNA-strand breakage. However, their kuldiga tukums cost 2Mb/s wireless LAN PC adapters for RHES bandwidth, typically 40 kHz. at about 10 hertz using Tesla transmitters in Broceni MWt) plants. system organization. radiation any building was data shows significant DNA breakage followed by significantly enhanced use in a citywide University network. RHES Krustpils RHES kalnciems ogre Also in the 2000s on the HF bands, over-the-horizon Chernobyl, Gomel and Komsomolsk-na-Amur. Jelgava Rezekne By the end of 2004 Construction of a PECHORA [Daryal] prohibited in an area of 1500 m DNA repair. There is highly substantial evidence that RF/MW is genotoxic Currently the LATNET wireless system in Saldus salaspils radars from other countries, using other pulse These transmitters generate electromagnetic Grobina transmission network Leikociti class large phased array radar at the (2). and is therefore carcinogenic. (Dr. NEIL CHERRY, Childhood cancer incidence plavinas Riga is the most important part of the Liepaja jelgava ludza frequencies, have been audible. The 10-Hz transmissions that produce an ELF scalar grid over the systems of Latvenergo 0,3 so-called "northern center" began in in the vicinity of the Sutro Tower, San Francisco, 29may00, Dodele Rezekne educational network, which connects skriveri Woodpecker was, and will be remembered as a unique United States. This is done by transmitting these low comprised 1248 km of 330 1984. The 60-meter structure was to NOTES www.mindfully.org/Technology/Sutro-Tower-EMF-Cancer29may00.htm) Bauska more than two hundred sites including 0,25 phenomenon that generated more interference frequency scalar waves in pairs so that they converge Daugavpils kV voltage lines, 3954 km have been one of the most (2) Upmalis I., Latvija – PSRS jekabpils preili University departments, Institutes, high 0,2 reports and speculations than any other radio at a predetermined point on the earth’s surface and 110 kV overhead lines and important Soviet stations for Karab_ze 1939. - 1998., Zelta grauds, schools, and government agencies. R_ga, p 61-77, 2006] NOTES emission. cause a disruption of the atmosphere. This technology 33 km 110 kV cable lines 0,15 listening to objects in space. The 1 - Tonascia, J.A. and Tonascia, S., 1969: "Hematological Study: progress Wireless LAN equipment uses spread Estonia When it first began operations, the transmitter can be used to alter the course of the jet stream and and 129 substations. The Skrunda PECHORA radar building report on SCC 31732", George Washington University, Department of daugavpils spectrum transmission technology and 0,1 interfered with several communications channels, set up long- term weather blocks. main 330kV grid consists of was destroyed by explosive charges Obstetrics and Gynecology, February 4, 1969. operates in the so-called ISM (Industrial, 0,05 including emergency frequencies for aircraft on 12 domestic and 7 transit Relativa frekvence on 04 May 1995. A similar station 2 - Balode, Z., 1996: "Assessment of radio-frequency electromagnetic Science, and Medical) license free bands : transoceanic flights. Subsequently the operational Russia lines, connecting the 0 under construction in Baranovichi, radiation by the micronucleus test in Bovine peripheral erythrocytes". The 902-928MHz, 2.4-2.484GHz, and 5.725- Riga Latvia practice was modified so that the radar skipped these Latvian power system to Belarus, will resolve all the Science of the Total Environment, 180: 81-86. 5.875GHz. Chernobyl and Woodpecker 4500 5500 6500 7500 8500 9500 3 - Garaj-Vrhovac, V., Horvat, D., Brumen-Mahovic and Racic, J., 1987: critical frequencies as it moved across its operational 10 000 the neighboring systems in < 4000 problems caused by the closure of The second-generation wireless Internet spectrum. The Chernobyl-2 OTHR station (9.7 km away from the Warning ! Warning ! Estonia, Lithuania and Leikociti the Skrunda station. "Somatic mutations in persons occupationally exposed to microwave access network in Riga was started in 1995 High voltage Electrostatic sensitive radiation".
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