UPDATE By Fran Ridge

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FEBRUARY 2022 ISSUE

NEW MADAR SITES
Lots of new information on MADAR sites starting off the New Year. Our latest addition to the MADAR program is site 194 at Broken Arrow, Oaklahoma. Richard Smedley is the new Op. Node 195 is in Dothan, Alabama, operated by Craig McManus. Robin Ahrens is the op for node 191, our first node in the missile country of South Dakota at Watertown.  Currently we have 118 nodes running.

MOVING SITES
When a MADAR device is moved to a new location, that node's history is tied to that location, so the device is reprogrammed and the node number is changed. Valley City, North Dakota site 93 is moving to Jamestown, North Dakota as node 193. Jeff Rash is still the op. Brian Seech is moving node 68 at Aliquippa, Pennsylvania to Weirton, West Virginia and its new node ID will be 192. Larry Tyree ran node 24 at Lee's Summitt, Missouri and will be operating node 196 at Naperville, Illinois.

ANALYSIS GIVES US A SURPRISE
At the end of 2021 we released the Project Match Four Year Report
http://www.nicap.org/match/Annual-Project-MATCH_Reports/Annual-MADAR-Report.htm
In this report each correlation was assigned an analysis rating. The chart below lists the 11 candidates.



The outstanding finding was the last column. Because of this, some major changes have been suggested. For more detail on the meaning of each column go to
http://www.nicap.org/match/analyses/ProcessedMADARAnomalies.htm
But the last column, the device's threshold in milligaus, tells us that MADAR dataProbes with threshold set at lower levels are having greater success than the others, most of which are set at 30. A shield above 20-25 is restricting the ability of the device to pick up an anomaly. But lowering the shield creates or allows other issues, such as an increase in false alarms. The secret is obtaining the best location at a MADAR site. Combine this discovery with a new plan to get more operators outside during an event and 2022 will be a year to remember.

A BETTER, CHEAPER ALARM
Besides the fact that building a DAS (Delayed Alarm System) is an unneeded task, it is also another expense for the Op. With that in mind a few months ago I put our Tech support Team to work on a new idea to get Ops outside during an alert. All Ops get an alert email. It is documentation and doesn't provide an instantaneous alert. Better than that is the SMS alert which the Op gets on his cell phone. But nothing is faster or better than the DAS to shake one out of bed. It had issues. Expensive, had a 9 volt battery that had a bad habit of running out of "juice", was too loud too long. Our TST came up with a $10 USB-powered pc speaker from Amazon, and all you have to do is plug it in to one of the MADAR's USB ports. It has adjustments and a selection of different audio alert sounds.  This is going to make a big difference.
 
     For lots of information about MADAR please check our papers folder at:
http://www.nicap.org/match/papers /

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