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margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #ff6600; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#ff6600"><b>Some dare call it</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Conspiracy</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#ffe6d5;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Conspiracy_theories" title="Category:Conspiracy theories"><img alt="Icon conspiracy.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/5/58/Icon_conspiracy.svg/100px-Icon_conspiracy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/5/58/Icon_conspiracy.svg/150px-Icon_conspiracy.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/5/58/Icon_conspiracy.svg/200px-Icon_conspiracy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="195" data-file-height="195" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#ff6600; text-align:center;"><b>What <i>THEY</i> don't want<br />you to know!</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; 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Wassermann">Gerhard D. Wassermann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Automatic_writing" title="Automatic writing">Automatic writing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hive_mind" title="Hive mind">Hive mind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Parapsychologists" title="Category:Parapsychologists">Parapsychologists</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Psychic" title="Template:Psychic">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Psychic" title="Template talk:Psychic">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Psychic&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Decommissioned <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>-era radio antennas known as <b>GWEN towers</b> have become the focus of a <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a> which claims that the <a href="/wiki/U.S." class="mw-redirect" title="U.S.">U.S.</a> government is secretly operating these relics as part of a vast network of devices — imbued with the power <i>either</i> to <a href="/wiki/Mind_control" title="Mind control">control the minds</a> of citizens, alter the weather, or create earthquakes. <small>Or maybe all three.</small> </p><p>Internet <a href="/wiki/Troll" class="mw-redirect" title="Troll">trolls</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hoax" title="Hoax">hoaxers</a>, and conspiracy mongers often circulate pictures of ordinary cell phone towers as "proof" that <i><a href="/wiki/They" title="They">THEY</a></i> are using <a href="/wiki/ELF" class="mw-redirect" title="ELF">ELF</a> to supposedly amplify the power of <a href="/wiki/HAARP" title="HAARP">HAARP</a> and/or turn people into mind-numbed <a href="/wiki/Sheeple" title="Sheeple">sheeple</a>. </p><p>Today's modern <a href="/wiki/Crank" title="Crank">cranks</a> (being down with the smartphone-using kids and all) have even promoted GWEN towers as the smoking guns in a vast <a href="/wiki/Unified_conspiracy_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Unified conspiracy theory">unified conspiracy theory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shoehorning" title="Shoehorning">conveniently involving</a> <i>most</i> <a href="/wiki/Fringe" title="Fringe">fringe</a> nonsense you could list off the top of your head, including <a href="/wiki/Chemtrails" title="Chemtrails">chemtrails</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vaccines" class="mw-redirect" title="Vaccines">vaccines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yogic_flying" title="Yogic flying">yogis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alien_implant" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien implant">alien implants</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" title="Nikola Tesla">Tesla woo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Truth11_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Truth11-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TSM_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSM-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBBS_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBBS-3">[3]</a></sup> It's no surprise that phrases like "what is GWEN", "GWEN towers ears ringing", and "GWEN tower location map" rank high in Google searches, given the excessive level of <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">bullshit</a> on the subject. </p><p>Among the current takers of GWEN hype, we find none other than <i><a href="/wiki/Infowars" class="mw-redirect" title="Infowars">Infowars</a></i> conspiracy merchant <a href="/wiki/Paul_Joseph_Watson" title="Paul Joseph Watson">Paul Joseph Watson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#The_unremarkable_truth"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">The unremarkable truth</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Turning_the_dial_to_Bullshit_FM"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Turning the dial to Bullshit FM</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Ripe_for_debunking"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Ripe for debunking</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Fear_of_antennas"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Fear of antennas</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Bogus_photos_and_videos"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Bogus photos and videos</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Dude.2C_they.27re_just_cell_towers"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Dude, they're just <i>cell towers</i></span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#In_conclusion"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">In conclusion</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_unremarkable_truth">The unremarkable truth</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GWEN_towers&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The unremarkable truth">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Oldgwentower.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/0/05/Oldgwentower.jpg/200px-Oldgwentower.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="113" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/0/05/Oldgwentower.jpg/300px-Oldgwentower.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/0/05/Oldgwentower.jpg/400px-Oldgwentower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="720" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Oldgwentower.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Old GWEN tower.</div></div></div> <p>In the 1980s, the US Air Force commissioned a nationwide network of unmanned <a href="/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio</a> relay stations to act as a "fail safe" mechanism to communicate with Strategic Air Command operating locations and launch control centers should a nuclear explosion disrupt the ionosphere and knock out conventional radio systems.<sup id="cite_ref-Bulletin_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bulletin-5">[5]</a></sup> </p><p>The military dubbed it the "Ground Wave Emergency Network" (GWEN), since it transmitted on LF (150 - 175 kHz), which are relatively low radio frequencies that tend to hug the ground. This effect, known as "ground wave", is still employed by commercial AM radio stations in the US, whose signals bend with the curvature of the earth to provide reliable coverage over large areas.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> It was thought that if conventional <a href="/wiki/Shortwave" title="Shortwave">high frequency</a> military radio systems that depended on "sky wave" communications were disrupted by the <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_war#Electromagnetic_pulse" title="Nuclear war">electromagnetic pulse</a> (EMP) of a nuclear explosion, GWEN's low frequency ground wave system would still be able to get through.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated13_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated13-7">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1988_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1988-8">[8]</a></sup> </p><p>GWEN towers were actually quite unremarkable and very similar to those used by normal AM radio stations: a steel trusswork tower around 299 feet tall, lots of guy wires, and some equipment shacks surrounded by chain link fencing. Of some 200-plus planned installations, only 58 GWEN towers were ever built. When the military found its existing redundant communication systems were more than adequate and <a href="/wiki/Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Congress">Congress</a> questioned the expenditures funding GWEN, the whole program was quietly abandoned in the early 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated13_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated13-7">[7]</a></sup> </p><p>Some of the 58 former GWEN towers were given to the US Coast Guard to install Global Positioning Satellite antennas on in order to extend coverage of the national GPS network. Others were sold off to commercial businesses who used the former GWEN sites to erect cell phone towers.<sup id="cite_ref-Bulletin_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bulletin-5">[5]</a></sup> </p><p>Of course, since anything having to do with the government is considered inherently evil, GWEN <i>must</i> be part of a secret plan to harm the population, so… </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Turning_the_dial_to_Bullshit_FM">Turning the dial to Bullshit FM</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GWEN_towers&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Turning the dial to Bullshit FM">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:272px;"><a href="/wiki/File:BullshitDiagram.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/5/58/BullshitDiagram.jpg/270px-BullshitDiagram.jpg" decoding="async" width="270" height="175" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/5/58/BullshitDiagram.jpg/405px-BullshitDiagram.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/5/58/BullshitDiagram.jpg/540px-BullshitDiagram.jpg 2x" data-file-width="898" data-file-height="583" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:BullshitDiagram.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>How it actually works.</div></div></div> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main articles on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Electromagnetic_sensitivity" class="mw-redirect" title="Electromagnetic sensitivity">Electromagnetic sensitivity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Targeted_Individuals" title="Targeted Individuals">Targeted Individuals</a></div> <p>According to various <a href="/wiki/Cranks" class="mw-redirect" title="Cranks">cranks</a>, the long-dilapidated GWEN network is <i>not only</i> still functioning — it's even being put to new uses (such as "<a href="/wiki/Word_salad" title="Word salad">sending synthetic-telepathy as infrasound to victims with US government mind-control implants</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Truth11_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Truth11-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-biblio_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biblio-9">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TSM_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TSM-2">[2]</a></sup>) </p><p>Commonly <s>imagined</s> alleged GWEN capabilities include: </p> <ul><li><b>Weather control:</b> Cranks claim GWEN towers located along earthquake fault lines "were turned on for 40 days and 40 nights" in conjunction with HAARP, causing rivers to flood and agricultural losses of $12-15 billion.</li> <li><b>Mind control:</b> Another crank hypothesis is that GWEN towers send out signals that disrupt the <a href="/wiki/Schumann_Resonance" title="Schumann Resonance">Schumann Resonance</a>, causing the earth to vibrate at bad frequencies that make humans more suggestible to orders from the government. There are claims that GWEN uses a type of mega-evil radio wave called a <a href="/wiki/Scalar_wave" title="Scalar wave">Scalar wave</a>, which is pretty much all the proof you need that cranks literally make this bullshit up, since a scalar wave is actually a boring mathematical solution to an ordinary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_equation" class="extiw" title="wp:Wave equation" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Wave equation">Wave equation</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> and has nothing to do with electromagnetic radiation.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup></li> <li><b>Behavior- and mood control:</b> Despite the obvious electrical and physical limitations, cranks say GWEN towers are able to emit radiation at the fantastically low frequencies of 7.83 Hz, 10.80 Hz, and 6.6 Hz to make a person feel good, produce an altered state, and cause riotous behavior or depression.</li> <li><b>Infrasound implants:</b> According to the very crankiest thinkers, GWEN towers activate tiny electronic implants contained in ordinary vaccines that somehow use infrasound to create voices in people's heads telling them what to do, or to facilitate communication with <a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrials" class="mw-redirect" title="Extraterrestrials">extraterrestrials</a> (who, <a href="/wiki/Ironically" class="mw-redirect" title="Ironically">ironically</a>, also tell them what to do).</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Ripe_for_debunking">Ripe for debunking</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GWEN_towers&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ripe for debunking">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main articles on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency" title="Extremely low frequency">Extremely low frequency</a> and <a href="/wiki/HAARP" title="HAARP">HAARP</a></div> <p>One canard being passed around by GWEN conspiracy believers is that a broadcast antenna using a ground system can somehow blow up your mind: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>Copper wire fans out in a spoke like fashion from the base of the underground system, interacting with the earth like a thin shelled conductor, radiating radio wave energy for very long distances through the ground. The USA bathes in this magnetic field which rises to 500 ft, even going down to basements, so everyone is subject to mind control.<sup id="cite_ref-biblio_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biblio-9">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-truedemocracy_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-truedemocracy-14">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Truth11_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Truth11-1">[1]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>The origin of this stupidity is probably the fact that antenna towers in the former GWEN network employed a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoise_(ground_system)" class="extiw" title="wp:Counterpoise (ground system)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Counterpoise (ground system)">counterpoise</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> to form a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ground_plane" class="extiw" title="wp:ground plane" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: ground plane">ground plane</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> which is simply a radial system of buried wire under the tower that helps reflect radio signals outwards — an age-old technology that all commercial broadcasters use.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated13_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated13-7">[7]</a></sup> </p><p>Similarly, the fact that GWEN's radio antennas made use of "ground wave" propagation is portrayed as scary and bad: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>The whole artificial ground wave spreads out over USA like a web. It is easier to mind-control and hypnotize people who are bathed in an artificial electromagnetic wave.<sup id="cite_ref-biblio_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biblio-9">[9]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Nope. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_wave_propagation" class="extiw" title="wp:Ground wave propagation" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Ground wave propagation">Ground wave propagation</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> is just one way that ordinary radio signals travel across the surface of the earth (and have been ever since Marconi first pioneered their development in 1895). </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>The GWEN Towers shoot enormous bursts of energy into the atmosphere in conjunction with HAARP.<sup id="cite_ref-biblio_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biblio-9">[9]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Nope again. The peak broadcasting power of a GWEN transmitter was between 2,000 and 3,200 watts -- actually pretty low power for a radio station. In fact, it's less than 6% of the power transmitted by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_50_kW_AM_radio_stations_in_the_United_States" class="extiw" title="wp:List of 50 kW AM radio stations in the United States" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: List of 50 kW AM radio stations in the United States">hundred or so 50,000 watt radio stations in the US</span></a>.<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>GWEN towers are placed 200 miles apart across the USA, allow specific frequencies to be tailored to the geomagnetic-field strength in each area, allowing the magnetic field to be altered.<sup id="cite_ref-biblio_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biblio-9">[9]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>The towers in the former GWEN system were placed 200 miles apart to relay messages between SAC headquarters and Air Force bases located around the USA. It had nothing to do with the earth's magnetic field. The geomagnetic field strength at any one place on the earth is so irregular it takes satellites and 200 magnetic observatories around the world just to measure it from moment to moment. The idea that a <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> radio communications network could measure it (and then actually alter it) is ridiculous.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>GWEN towers generate energy operating within the same 400 MHz frequency that the human brain also operates. Our brains are vulnerable to ELF technology because they begin resonating to outside signals similar to a tuning fork.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>No, 400 MHz (Megahertz) is not the frequency of the human brain.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[note 1]</a></sup> The 400 MHz band of radio frequencies is used for government comns as well as construction site operations, schools, events, and fast food drive-thru intercoms. It's even the frequency of the small handheld walkie talkies that you pick up from Wal-Mart, as well as a relatively popular portion of the ham bands for local communications. The former GWEN sites used small 20-watt two-way radios for backup communications that happened to operate in the 400 MHz band. Nobody's brain has ever resonated to these frequencies.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[17]</a></sup> </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>GWEN works in conjunction with HAARP and the Russian Woodpecker transmitter, which is similar to HAARP.<sup id="cite_ref-Truth11_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Truth11-1">[1]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Wrong. The Russian Woodpecker <i>was</i> a very powerful radar installation in the Soviet Union that operated during the height of the Cold War. It was decommissioned in 1989 — and its sole purpose was to detect an incoming American intercontinental ballistic missile. It's now rusting away in a Ukrainian forest.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[18]</a></sup> </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>The Government, has, the capability, of transmitting, “EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCIES”, to peoples’ minds, in order, to transmit “specific electronic messages” to their brains – at a level, that can NOT be detected, by ‘the conscious mind’; but only subconsciously. People are being targeted all over the world, through the use of GWEN Towers.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[19]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>So bogus as to be <a href="/wiki/Not_even_wrong" title="Not even wrong">not even wrong</a>. The former GWEN towers were of a specific size in order to transmit in the LF (Low Frequency) range of 150 to 175 kHz, which is just below the US AM radio broadcast band. LF is also where European and Asian AM radio stations have broadcast music, news, and entertainment programming for many years. GWEN towers would have had to be substantially larger (like 30 or 40 miles larger) to transmit <a href="/wiki/ELF" class="mw-redirect" title="ELF">ELF</a> (Extremely Low Frequency) waves, which are those between 3 and 30 Hz.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[20]</a></sup> </p><p>We're sorry to spoil conspiracy theorists' fun, but many things around us give off ELF waves, one of the most common being power lines. And all studies into ELF waves have shown that (despite what someone told you on Facebook) they do not affect the human mind.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[21]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Fear_of_antennas">Fear of antennas</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GWEN_towers&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Fear of antennas">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Radiophobia" title="Radiophobia">Radiophobia</a></div> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:302px;"><a href="/wiki/File:RadioLux.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/c/c9/RadioLux.jpg/300px-RadioLux.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="240" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/c/c9/RadioLux.jpg/450px-RadioLux.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/c/c9/RadioLux.jpg/600px-RadioLux.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="512" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:RadioLux.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Radio Luxembourg's crazy-looking antenna freaked people out in the 1920s.</div></div></div> <p>It's easy to see why the GWEN mind-control legend started, and how it got mashed up with rumors about HAARP and cell phone towers. </p><p>When the GWEN radio network was being built in the late 1980s, there were a number of local protests. Environmentalists and anti nuclear activists didn't want these radio towers in their backyards. Some residents feared that the USSR would target these installations in the event of a nuclear war, and their communities would be especially vulnerable to attack. Others sought to protect the natural resources and wildlife habitats that would get bulldozed over during construction.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[22]</a></sup> These protests have been conveniently <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity" class="extiw" title="wp:Retroactive continuity" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Retroactive continuity">retconned</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> as evidence of early "government mind control whistleblowers". </p><p>And then there's <a href="/wiki/HAARP" title="HAARP">HAARP</a>. It's a popular target for conspiracy theorists who believe it's capable of mind control and weather control. And <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arrl.org/images/view/News/HAARP-Antenna%20Field-New-2_3.jpg">LOOK</a> — it's got a massive shitload of weird-looking antennas! </p><p>Thanks to the proliferation of cell phones, fear of <a href="/wiki/Microwave" title="Microwave">mobile phone radiation</a> (or anything to do with microwaves) soon got stirred into the mix. It didn't matter how many studies determined cell phone radiation to be safe,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[23]</a></sup> some people like this guy<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[24]</a></sup> just enjoyed talking bogus shit about cell phones. So it's only natural that the hundreds of antenna towers needed to let cell phone companies say "we've got the best coverage in the nation" began to get lots of attention from cranks. </p><p>We get it. Antennas of any kind are strange, unsettling contraptions. Cell phone towers are ugly.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">[note 2]</a></sup> But they honestly don't have the power to control your mind. How did this stupid rumor spread? Oh, wait… <a href="/wiki/Social_media" class="mw-redirect" title="Social media">social media</a>, like <a href="/wiki/Irony" title="Irony">Facebook's smartphone app</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Bogus_photos_and_videos">Bogus photos and videos</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GWEN_towers&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bogus photos and videos">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:167px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Cellphonetower.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/6/62/Cellphonetower.jpg/165px-Cellphonetower.jpg" decoding="async" width="165" height="220" class="thumbimage" srcset="/w/images/thumb/6/62/Cellphonetower.jpg/248px-Cellphonetower.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/6/62/Cellphonetower.jpg/330px-Cellphonetower.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="800" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Cellphonetower.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Ordinary cell phone tower. Just add bullshit and stir.</div></div></div> <p>GWEN tower conspiracy kooks regularly share photos of boringly normal cell phone towers on web pages, blogs, <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[25]</a></sup> sometimes labeling them with a warning: "THESE ARE NOT CELL PHONE TOWERS!". </p><p>On <a href="/wiki/Youtube" class="mw-redirect" title="Youtube">Youtube</a> where conspiracy videos thrive, one can find a super-sized helping of GWEN hysteria and misinformation. Such as: </p> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">fake news</a> video about the dangers of these "extermination towers" which somehow interact with "nano <a href="/wiki/Aluminum" title="Aluminum">aluminum</a>" dropped by chemtrail planes to make people more susceptible to microwave torture.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a></sup></li></ul> <ul><li>A Sheffield, UK resident who thinks the US has covertly installed GWEN towers atop a hill in the English countryside, despite the fact they are clearly labeled as British telecom company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arqiva" class="extiw" title="wp:Arqiva" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Arqiva">Arqiva</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> cell towers.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a></sup></li></ul> <ul><li>An unintentionally funny encounter between a cellular tower engineer and a breathless GWEN conspiracy theorist.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">[28]</a></sup></li></ul> <ul><li>The team from <a href="/wiki/Truthstream_Media" title="Truthstream Media">Truthstream Media</a> manages to track down <i>a bonafide former GWEN site</i>, obviously repurposed for GPS service by the Coast Guard, yet still with its beautiful 1980s vintage radio tower intact. Sadly, instead of appreciating the site's historic value, they ramble about its supposed "mind control capabilities".<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a></sup></li></ul> <p>It seems that every time a US Wireless carrier puts up a new tower in some neighborhood to extend coverage for subscribers, cranks and trolls scramble to post supposed "proof" that government GWEN towers are popping up everywhere, and no one is safe from the horror.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[31]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBBS_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBBS-3">[3]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span id="Dude,_they're_just_cell_towers"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Dude.2C_they.27re_just_cell_towers">Dude, they're just <i>cell towers</i></span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GWEN_towers&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Dude, they're just cell towers">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="thumb tleft" style="width: 256px;"> <div class="thumbinner"> <div style="float: left; margin: 1px; width: 122px"> <div class="thumbimage"><a href="/wiki/File:Sector_Antenna.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/8/80/Sector_Antenna.jpg/120px-Sector_Antenna.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="92" srcset="/w/images/thumb/8/80/Sector_Antenna.jpg/180px-Sector_Antenna.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/8/80/Sector_Antenna.jpg/240px-Sector_Antenna.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="307" /></a> </div> </div><div style="float: left; margin: 1px; width: 122px"> <div class="thumbimage"><a href="/wiki/File:Panel_antenna.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/w/images/thumb/b/b6/Panel_antenna.jpg/120px-Panel_antenna.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="117" srcset="/w/images/thumb/b/b6/Panel_antenna.jpg/180px-Panel_antenna.jpg 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/b/b6/Panel_antenna.jpg/240px-Panel_antenna.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2972" data-file-height="2892" /></a> </div> </div><div class="thumbcaption" style="clear: left; text-align: left; background: transparent">A sector antenna and what's inside it </div> </div> </div> <p>The reason you see so many wireless towers is that a huge number of people use smartphones and mobile devices. In the US, wireless carriers like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint serve over 400 million subscribers.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[32]</a></sup> That's a lot of people. And it takes a shitload of wireless antennas to keep them all connected. </p><p>Wireless technology is pretty sophisticated, but it's not <a href="/wiki/Voodoo" class="mw-redirect" title="Voodoo">voodoo</a> or <a href="/wiki/Magic" title="Magic">magic</a>. It's basically a two-way radio system that operates in the <a href="/wiki/Microwave" title="Microwave">microwave</a> range: a typical LTE wireless network uses frequencies between 1000 and 2000 MHz. The cell site towers serve for both receiving and transmitting. The weak signal transmitted by your phone (on average, 1 or 2 watts) is received by the wireless company tower, then sent out to other phones with increased power (on average, about 5 to 10 watts).<sup id="cite_ref-Gizmodo_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gizmodo-35">[33]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[34]</a></sup> </p><p>These towers have to be tall, because microwaves tend to be "line of sight" and can't go around obstacles easily. Those clusters of flat or angled vertical panels you see on the tower are called "sector antennas", because each cluster is aimed to serve customers in a 120 degree sector of whatever neighborhood the tower is located in. Inside each of the panels there are typically 10 tiny antennas arranged in a vertical line. These cute little antennas are made to a specific size so they will radiate waves that resonate with the antenna in your cell phone.<sup id="cite_ref-Gizmodo_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gizmodo-35">[33]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="In_conclusion">In conclusion</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GWEN_towers&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In conclusion">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Despite the GWEN conspiracy hype, there is no technology that enables ordinary broadcast radio or mobile phone antennas to transmit thoughts directly into your mind or trigger earthquakes and tornadoes. </p><p>And far from being a sickening globalist plot, modern cell phone technology is actually pretty damn amazing. </p><p>These days, most people take for granted the ability to carry a little thing around in their pocket which lets them talk to a loved one — or anyone, for that matter — on the other side of the country (or planet) at the press of a <s>touchscreen</s> button. </p><p>Never mind the ability to call for help when someone is hurt or in danger, the ability to report crime against yourself or a neighbour, or the ability to check on you kids as they walk home from school.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[note 3]</a></sup> </p><p>Mobile communications would be worth it <i>even if</i> they caused <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a> — which <i><a href="/wiki/Electromagnetic_sensitivity#In_a_nutshell" class="mw-redirect" title="Electromagnetic sensitivity">they fucking don't</a></i>. </p><p>And that makes even the shittiest cell phone in the world a <s><a href="/wiki/Miracle" title="Miracle">miracle</a></s> monument to <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[35]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GWEN_towers&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Project_Blue_Beam" title="Project Blue Beam">Project Blue Beam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brainwave_woo" title="Brainwave woo">Brainwave woo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Targeted_Individuals" title="Targeted Individuals">Targeted Individuals</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GWEN_towers&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Crank geniuses have apparently confused 400 MHz (Megahertz) with 40 <b>Hz (Hertz)</b>, a frequency at which gamma brain waves have been detected.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-26">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mobile providers have tried to pretty them up <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/take-a-look-at-americas-least-convincing-cell-phone-tower-trees">by disguising them as trees</a>. Which cranks predictably interpret as sure <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whale.to/a/319371_10151270927597589_1187366579_n.jpg">proof the whole thing is an evil plot</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-37">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Imagine being forced to send a god damn telegram every time you felt like pizza!</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=GWEN_towers&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Truth11-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Truth11_1-0">1.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Truth11_1-1">1.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Truth11_1-2">1.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Truth11_1-3">1.3</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://truth11.com/2015/01/31/total-population-control-mind-control-an-overview-of-the-elf-gwen-towers-and-haarp-inter-connection/">Total Population Control, Mind Control, An overview of the ELF, GWEN towers, and HAARP inter-connection</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-TSM-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-TSM_2-0">2.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-TSM_2-1">2.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://truthstreammedia.com/2015/07/27/what-is-this-gwen-tower-really-for/">"What Is This GWEN Tower Really For?"</a> <a href="/wiki/Truthstream_Media" title="Truthstream Media">Truthstream Media</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BBBS-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-BBBS_3-0">3.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-BBBS_3-1">3.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://byebyebluesky.com/the-weaponization-of-cellular-towers-large-kill-radius/">"The weaponization of cellular towers"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.infowars.com/mysterious-fake-cell-phone-towers-found-across-america/">http://www.infowars.com/mysterious-fake-cell-phone-towers-found-across-america/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bulletin-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Bulletin_5-0">5.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Bulletin_5-1">5.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thebulletin.org/tower-woods-preparing-nuclear-war9488">The tower in the woods: preparing for nuclear war</a> Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.musicradio77.com/transm.html">Why did WABC have such a great signal?</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-autogenerated13-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated13_7-0">7.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated13_7-1">7.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated13_7-2">7.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=2046&page=13">Commission on Life Science: "Assessment of the Possible Health Effects of Ground Wave Emergency Network: Description of GWEN System", 1993</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-autogenerated1988-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1988_8-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/12/us/us-to-complete-emergency-radio-network.html">Associated Press: "U.S. to Complete Emergency Radio Network"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, 12 September 1988</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-biblio-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-biblio_9-0">9.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-biblio_9-1">9.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-biblio_9-2">9.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-biblio_9-3">9.3</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-biblio_9-4">9.4</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/scalar_tech/esp_scalartech04.htm">"GWEN Towers, Total Control"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.com/2010/11/crop-circles-mystery-solved-capt-ajit.html">CROP CIRCLES MYSTERY SOLVED-- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theeventchronicle.com/study/gwen-towers-elf-scalar-mind-control-weapons/">GWEN Towers — ELF Scalar Mind Control Weapons </a> The Event Chronicle</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.germanvictims.com/2015/09/scalar-waves-used-to-control-us/">Scalar Waves Used to Control Us</a> germanvictims.com</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alpha411.blogspot.com/2007/04/haarp-scalar-waves-and-how-they-affect.html">HAARP, Scalar Waves and how they affect you </a> Alpha44</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-truedemocracy-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-truedemocracy_14-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://truedemocracyparty.net/2012/09/gwen-towers-earthquake-machines-zombie-makers-ground-wave-emergency-network-they-can-blow-up-your-mind/">GWEN TOWERS: Earthquake Machines – Zombie Makers. Ground Wave Emergency Network. “They Can Blow Up Your Mind!”</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-15">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/faqgeom.shtml">Geomagnetism Frequently Asked Questions</a> NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sott.net/article/324946-Weaponized-cell-towers-and-cellphones-The-silent-invisible-21st-century-killer-by-design">Weaponized cell towers and cellphones: The silent, invisible 21st century killer by design</a> Sott.net</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Common_Itinerant_and_Business">Common Itinerant and Business Frequencies</a> RadioReference.com</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newsweek.com/hunt-russian-woodpecker-246670">The Massive Russian Radar Site in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone</a> Newsweek</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-20">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/new-world-order/2014/06/the-nwo-is-now-using-gwen-towers-and-elf-waves-to-control-the-global-population-2250.html">The NWO is now using GWEN Towers and ELF Waves to CONTROL THE GLOBAL POPULATION</a> BeforeItsNews.com</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-21">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/13/science/how-huge-antenna-can-broadcast-into-the-silence-of-the-sea.html?pagewanted=all">HOW HUGE ANTENNA CAN BROADCAST INTO THE SILENCE OF THE SEA</a> New York Times</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/electromagnetic-fields-fact-sheet">Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer</a> National Cancer Institute</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-23">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=6AUAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=GWEN+towers+local+protests&source=bl&ots=9DLaI48_Bk&sig=kH_sT8Y7LeN7BJrW3Qyh4xeIf9U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHrZO4vqHTAhVJ6IMKHQUFBlIQ6AEIKDAD#v=onepage&q=GWEN%20towers%20local%20protests&f=false">Dove Creek, Accident GWEN Spots?</a> Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. November 1989</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cellphones">Nat'l Cancer Institute</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Jason Mick, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/IBGIW">Study: Cell Phones Worse Than Smoking</a>. Archived from <i>Daily Tech</i>, 31 March 2008.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-27">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/293163131036640/">"Finding GWEN Towers"</a> <a href="/wiki/Social_networking_websites#Facebook" class="mw-redirect" title="Social networking websites">Facebook</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-28">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsJ9RwvI5w">Gwen towers and how they affect the human race</a> YouTube</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-29">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAifwtpDtZA">GWEN TOWER SHEFFIELD</a> YouTube</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-30">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS_rR39k95Q">Gwen Towers Revealed</a> YouTube</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-31">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szetLrlpHaw">What Is This GWEN Tower Really For?</a> YouTube</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-32">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://realizethelies.com/2016/05/17/thoughtcrime-future-possibility-or-current-reality/gwen-towers/">"Thoughtcrime: future possibility or current reality""</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-33">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://patinthehat00.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/finding-gwen/">"Finding GWEN"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-34">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/283507/subscribers-to-top-wireless-carriers-in-the-us/">Number of subscribers to wireless carriers in the U.S. from 1st quarter 2013 to 3rd quarter 2016, by carrier (in millions)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Gizmodo-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Gizmodo_35-0">33.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Gizmodo_35-1">33.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gizmodo.com/5177322/giz-explains-how-cell-towers-work">Giz Explains: How Cell Towers Work</a> Gizmodo</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-36">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a 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