HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a high-powered radio transmission research facility in Alaska jointly operated by the US Navy, Air Force and several universities; a BIG particle gun.
RCON is a text based protocol completely unrelated to the Source RCON protocol. It is designed with readability, ease of implementation, and human usability in mind.
RCON packets consist of a single-byte Type ID, a variable number of ASCII strings separated by the Delimiter (Start of Text/0x02), and a newline. The text after the Type ID and before the newline is referred to as the message. RCON strictly contains standard ASCII strings and does not support null characters.