Dutchsinse's theories and understanding of weather radar are so laughably uneducated and silly, it would be sad if not for all the followers he has that buy into his crap. I work for the NWS - as an electronics technician - and part of my responsibilities include maintenance and repair of the WSR-88D radar. I often go to his Facebook page and try to explain to his fans what they are actually seeing versus his nonsensical gibberish, only to have my comments either deleted or completely ignored. Normally, I would not care - to each their own - if they want to believe that crap, fine, let them believe it. But lately, I am noticing a growing anti-government rhetoric spreading along with a lot of sanctioning of violence against federal entities and that scares the heck out of me as a federal employee, especially one who works for an agency that is, essentially, being accused of murder by these people. My feeling is it is just a matter of time before one of them gets in their head to act upon their growing mistrust of federal agencies.
Someone asked the question somewhere in one of these threads wondering if NWS employees have been bothered by these people? Yes, they have. I know a couple meteorologists that have taken calls from angry citizens asking about chemtrails. A co-worker of mine was approached at a local university by what he described as a rather odd young man who wanted answers as to what we were doing with that "big white ball on top of that tower". It's scary.
On a technical note, as has been discussed numerous times here before, the WSR-88D CANNOT see "HAARP". A WSR-88D transmitter is tuned to a site specific frequency between 2.7-3.0 gigahertz. Each radar site has its own site specific frequency somewhere in that range. For example, let's say a particular WSR-88D's operating frequency is 2725 MHZ. Another site might operate at 2775 MHZ. Those sites will ONLY operate at or very near that frequency - it never changes. Their receiver circuitry is set up to filter out EVERY incoming type of RF energy that is not operating at or near those frequencies. Just like your car stereo only receives the particular channel you are tuned to, a radar will only "see" energy that is at or near its own frequency.
Good old Dutch seems to think the 88Ds can "see" HAARP because, according to him, they "pulse" at 12.4 MHZ. Not sure where he gets that from, but the closest thing I can think of is somewhere along the lines he saw specifications referring to the output pulse spectrum width and mistakes that for that actual output pulse frequency.
In addition, he loves to quote the maximum output power of the WSR-88D at 750KW and claims that is enough to reach the ionosphere where all the shady, underhanded manipulation of the weather takes place (apparently). First off, that is a measurement taken at the neck of what is called the klystron inside the transmitter assembly. Second, that is maximum power rating - the 88Ds never run that "hot". More typically, we keep them around 650-700 KW. And lastly, he obviously has no understanding of what is called path loss - the attenuation of that power as it travels through waveguides and other cabling to reach the antenna feedhorn in the radome (white ball). By the time the pulse is actually sent out into the atmosphere, it is typically around 400-420 KW, where it is quickly attenuated even further as it travels outward. By the time any returned energy makes it back, it is in the microwatt range - so much so that the antenna and receiver have circuitry built into them to significantly amplify the returned signals so they can even be made use of.
My points being, the WSR-88D cannot see HAARP; it does not have nearly enough output power to reach the ionosphere, and it certainly is NOT being used to control and or modify the weather! Now about that retraction, Mr. Dutch??
If this idea had any validity, then wouldn't radars accidentally wreak havoc on the weather all the time and everywhere?
