The Chill in Antarctica or “Tell Him Hi, But I’ve Got To Get Back To Work”
Oct 01, 2022
3 minutes
BY STEW GILLMOR,# W1FK
ne of the low points in my 14-month time as U.S. scientific member of the 6 Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1960-62) was in July 1961. As a last-minute replacement for a candidate fallen ill, I left Stanford University on a week’s notice in November 1960 and joined the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado, to do ionospheric research (riometer and VLF whistler studies). Within a week, I flew to Cape Town, South Africa,
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