[Collins] Collins gear and Amelia Earhardt

[Gerald]

On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 08:52 -0700, Ian wrote:
> I happened onto the last few minutes of:
> 
> Travel Channel late last night (Friday)
> "In Search of Amelia Earhardt"
> 
> What little I saw of it was at the very end.  A search on the Replay TV for
> upcoming programs doesn't find any additional broadcasts of it but I've
> programmed the Replay TV to record it if it's again on.  It's worth looking
> for it and seeing it if broadcast again.
> 
> The show features prominently, Rod Blocksome, K0DAS, whose name and call
> should be recognized by Collins collectors and users.  It had lots of shots
> of the Collins/Rockwell Radio Club station.
> 
> There was even a "recreation" of attempts to contact the plane at the time
> with glimpses of Collins gear and what appears to be a 51J....   Well before
> it's time!  Ahhh...."poetic license."
> 
> I wish I'd known it was going to be on as it was a lot about the strength of
> the radio signals analyzed by Rod and Collins and the likely location of the
> downed plane.
> 
> Ian, K6SDE
> 
Rod was the banquet speaker a couple years ago at the Central States VHF
Conference in Tulsa and that was his topic. Both interesting and
frustrating. I suppose there might be an article in print by now
somewhere.
-- 
73, Jerry, K0CQ
Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer
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