{"id":454,"date":"2009-11-18T22:52:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T22:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2009-11-20T02:41:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T02:41:27","slug":"well-miss-you-harry-helms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/well-miss-you-harry-helms\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ll Miss You, Harry Helms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_457\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-457\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-457\" title=\"hlh-on-wheeler\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hlh-on-wheeler-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Helms at 13,000 feet on Wheeler Peak.  Photo courtesy of Harry's Blog.\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hlh-on-wheeler-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/hlh-on-wheeler.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Helms at 13,000 feet on Wheeler Peak.  Photo courtesy of Harry&#39;s Blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Noted author and radio enthusiast, Harry Helms (callsign W5HLH) passed away on Sunday November 15, 2009 after a long battle with cancer. He was only 57 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Harry wrote numerous articles and books focusing on SWLing, amateur radio and many other technical matters. He was a mentor to many radio operators and will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Harry Helms, please check out the links below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Harry Helms' blog\" href=\"http:\/\/harryhelmsblog.blogspot.com\/\">Harry&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Shortwave Listening Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/universal-radio.com\/catalog\/books\/2984.html\">The Shortwave Listening Guidebook <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"ARRL Harry Helms\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/stories\/2009\/11\/18\/11201\/?nc=1\">ARRL Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted author and radio enthusiast, Harry Helms (callsign W5HLH) passed away on Sunday November 15, 2009 after a long battle with cancer. He was only 57 years old. Harry wrote numerous articles and books focusing on SWLing, amateur radio and many other technical matters. He was a mentor to many radio operators and will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[175,177,176],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-harry-helms","tag-sk","tag-w5hlh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59347,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/radio-sighting-in-lets-get-harry\/","url_meta":{"origin":454,"position":0},"title":"Radio Sighting in &#8220;Let&#8217;s Get Harry&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"March 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Perry Lusk, who writes: Guess what kids? 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It appears that not only did Mr. Truman have the first television inside the Oval Office, he apparently also\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Boat Anchors&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Boat Anchors","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/boat-anchors-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image4.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image4.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image4.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":32482,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/how-to-build-sm0vpos-20-meter-magnetic-loop-antenna\/","url_meta":{"origin":454,"position":2},"title":"How to build SM0VPO&#8217;s 20 meter magnetic loop antenna","author":"Thomas","date":"May 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"A few days ago, SWLing Post contributor, Robert Gulley (AK3Q), pointed me to an excellent website by Harry Lythall (SM0VPO) which is chock-full of various homebrew radio projects. 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