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<strong class="journal-contentHeaderColor">Abstract.</strong> We present the historical background of the construction of a major ionospheric heating facility, “Heating”, near Tromsø, Norway, in the 1970s by the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy; we also detail the facility's subsequent operational history to the present. Heating was built next to the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) incoherent scatter (IS) radar facility and in a region with a multitude of diagnostic instruments used to study the auroral region. The facility was transferred to EISCAT in January 1993 and continues to provide new discoveries in plasma physics and ionospheric and atmospheric science to this day. It is expected that Heating will continue operating along with the new generation of IS radar, called EISCAT_3D, when it is commissioned in the near future.

Highlights

  • We present the historical background to the construction of a major ionospheric heating facility near Tromsø, Norway in the 1970s by the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy and the subsequent operational history to the present

  • In the following we present the history of a major ionospheric research facility which played a very important part of both of 20 our scientific careers

  • The history of ionospheric heating experiments started in the early days of radio, with the Luxembourg effect (Tellegen, 1933) where the modulation of a powerful radio transmitter was imparted in the ionosphere on another radio wave transmission

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We present the historical background to the construction of a major ionospheric heating facility near Tromsø, Norway in the 1970s by the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy and the subsequent operational history to the present. It was built next to the EISCAT incoherent scatter radar facility and in a region with a multitude of diagnostic instruments used to study the auroral region. The facility was transferred to the EISCAT Scientific Association in January 1993 and continues to provide. 15 new discoveries in plasma physics and ionospheric and atmospheric science to this day. It is expected that ‘Heating’ will continue operating together with the new generation of incoherent scatter radar, called EISCAT_3D, when it is commissioned in the near future

Introduction
25 1 Background and Conception
Funding, Construction and Inauguration
The first decade of discoveries
A storm and antenna array reconfiguration
Transfer to EISCAT and user expansion
Findings
Present status and future
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