[ARC5] RCA AR-60 AR-60-R Pre AR-88 Receiver Works, Amelia Earhart disappearance | eBay

[Sandy]

Most of the historical stuff I've read and one ham I knew who was a White 
House aid/former Navy pilot for years did some extensive study of her flying 
habits and found that she really hated operating the radio gear.  I do 
remember also reading in a couple of the accounts Amelia wanting to take off 
all the trailing wire gear to save weight and also that it was an awful 
bother to use and she didn't like it at all.  Noonan objected, but Amelia 
won out on the argument.  What little experience I had personally with the 
C-47A aircraft and the ART-13/BC-348 combination with the fixed antenna from 
the Radio position feed thru to the vertical fin greatly hampered the signal 
that could be radiated by the transmitter.   Since the HF gear was never 
"practically" used by anyone in the unit was in "inflight" the trailing wire 
was removed before my enlistment in the unit.  I was the only radio operator 
who used the setup while I was in the Group.  Eventually the unit lost the 
C-47 to the "Puff the Magic Dragon" squadrons in Vietnam after I was 
discharged.  She wound up in Korean air force for a while and is now a 
monument near Taegu, S. Korea.  One old Master Sergeant that flew as an R/O 
on a Gooney Bird during the latter half of WW2 says the trailing wire made a 
"helluva difference" in the signal strength compared with the fixed wire.  I 
can only conclude it was her huge mistake to make and Noonan's misfortune 
not to have convinced her of doing otherwise.

Other comments and writings of Amelia's reluctance to properly learn to 
handle the radio gear were made by a couple of writers who knew her.

73,


Sandy W5TVW

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Morrow
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 2:04 PM
To: ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] RCA AR-60 AR-60-R Pre AR-88 Receiver Works, Amelia 
Earhart disappearance | eBay

Sandy wrote:

> Amelia disappeared because she was "radio stupid"!...  She really needed
> a radio operator on top of that!

I've read of sources that state that Fred Noonan held the commercial 
Radiotelegraph
Second Class license, although I've never heard if that included the 
Aircraft
Radiotelegraph endorsement.  Either way, that should indicate that Mr. 
Noonan
would be very capable of competently operating both phone and telegraph 
equipment.
Yet most sources seem to indicate that Earhart performed the radio operator 
duties.
All that is strange if true.

Mike / KK5F




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