On Sat, 18 Feb 2017, Paul Nicholson wrote:

Yes, the whistlers are amplified in the magnetosphere by
wave particle interaction.

do you need any particular polarisation to couple to the magnetosphere?

Bielefeld is, as usual, well placed for the lightning
storm off the southern tip of South Africa.  Receivers
a little further east may do very well too. I wonder if
Jacek has vtevent running?

now i do :)

and there is indeed a lot of whistlers

jacek