{"id":1056,"date":"2015-10-11T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/the-amazing-history-of-the-gibson-girl-rescue-radio-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:46:51","slug":"the-amazing-history-of-the-gibson-girl-rescue-radio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/the-amazing-history-of-the-gibson-girl-rescue-radio-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing History of the Gibson Girl Rescue Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GibsonGirlHopehasahelper-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/GibsonGirlHopehasahelper-1.jpg\" width=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong>A video about the Kon-Tiki expedition got us wondering about how you could generate hydrogen gas for an antenna balloon while on a raft at sea. (That&#8217;s the kind of question that keeps Knack victims up at night.) This led us to the Gibson Girl rescue radio. This morning I found a fascinating web site that gives the long, multi-country history of the curvaceous rescue rig: <\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wftw.nl\/gibsongirl.html\"><strong>http:\/\/www.wftw.nl\/gibsongirl.html<\/strong><\/a><strong> \ufeff<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video about the Kon-Tiki expedition got us wondering about how you could generate hydrogen gas for an antenna balloon while on a raft at sea. (That&#8217;s the kind of question that keeps Knack victims up at night.) This led us to the Gibson Girl rescue radio. This morning I found a fascinating web site &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/the-amazing-history-of-the-gibson-girl-rescue-radio-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Amazing History of the Gibson Girl Rescue Radio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,95,92,100,31,96,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-balloon","category-germany","category-norway","category-old-radio","category-radio-history","category-russia","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}