{"id":8223,"date":"2012-01-11T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/helliwell-and-the-whistlers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:15:25","slug":"helliwell-and-the-whistlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/helliwell-and-the-whistlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Helliwell and the Whistlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/waves.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 365px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/waves.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696160758340780626\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Paul, W2IOG, alerted me to the passing of Robert Helliwell, one of the discoverers of the &#8220;whistlers&#8221; and an expert on VLF phenomena and the magnetosphere. Paul met him and tells me that he was a real gentleman. His obit is fascinating:<\/span><br \/><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2011\/may\/robert-helliwell-obit-052011.html\"><br \/>http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2011\/may\/robert-helliwell-obit-052011.html<\/a><br \/><\/span><br \/>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul, W2IOG, alerted me to the passing of Robert Helliwell, one of the discoverers of the &#8220;whistlers&#8221; and an expert on VLF phenomena and the magnetosphere. Paul met him and tells me that he was a real gentleman. His obit is fascinating:http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2011\/may\/robert-helliwell-obit-052011.htmlOur book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htmOur coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/helliwell-and-the-whistlers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Helliwell and the Whistlers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-propagation","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223","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=8223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8225,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8223\/revisions\/8225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}