the HUM:
The more I observe it, the more I think that the HUM or pulsating rumble that we experience in different parts of Ireland (and maybe the world), and which I find extremely strong in Beaufort, Co.Kerry is connected to HAARP applications. For a while we thought it may be offshore-drilling or microwaves from cell towers. Last night with a "fairly clear" sky (one could see many stars), when I came home around 2-3 am after a gig, the rumble was just overwhelming. I stood at the velux window for a while and noticed the same phenomenon : When I look up at the stars (or when in bed I lie on my back) it is way more intense than when I lower my head. It seems to fill the whole skull and body and can be quite overwhelming, I have never experienced a "sound" or "pulse" as invading, and there is no escape from it, no earplugs filter it out . It takes over the whole space, and sometimes I think only my meditation experience makes me keep my sanity. Many questions around this phenomenon: Why is it constant, since April (Easter) 2011 ? It is too intense to be just a pump or a fan, and it seems to come from no particular direction ... other than from above, when I think of how raising or lowering the head seems to make a difference. Why does only a small percentage of the population hear it ? (I find it hard to imagine that anyone around here cannot hear it, I find it intense and omnipresent). An answer to this one is that it is a very low frequency, which might be below the hearing threshold of most ... (who might for example be able to hear it if the volume was increased). Another answer is that in rural Ireland not many want to admit hearing "weird" things as you are guaranteed to be laughed at next time you come into the pub (I know what I'm talking about!!!).
I had considered cell towers as there is a phenomenon called microwave auditory effect.
Now when I play or sing a note, it interferes with the hum, and creates a third note. Thats why I think it must be an acoustic signal rather than a microwave. Or, and for that I'd need to ask an expert in the field : Can acoustic waves (my played or sung notes) also interfere with a microwave signal ?
The hum seems to be around the musical notes of F (and sometimes Eflat) and would, if you take a piano, be the lowest F you can find on the keyboard . When I play an F# or a G on my harp, the interference is the strongest, which seems to confirm that the hum is an acoustic signal. Tuning my harp is no fun anymore because of these interferences! I even considered different tunings but I doubt that I can get rid of these interferences. Play two adjacent notes on the white keys, if you have a piano or keyboard, and you'll get an interference, like a "hum" by the way (Or for example play simultaneously a "g" and an "a" on two different tin whistles or recorders. Not very nice by the way and probably the reason why some children do not like to go to whistle or recorder classes). So another consideration of mine was, that our hum itself is an interference of two signals combined.
But what if it came from above? Which HAARP application needs a constant extremely low frequency in one spot? Or is this reverberation, an echo of something else, somewhere else, that is going on, maybe in America, and the bending of the signal through bouncing off the ionosphere changes its frequency?
I'm off to Germany & southern France next week, see is there any hum ...
... the irony of a harpist being bothered by haarp !!!