[Milsurplus] Re: Amelia & [ARC5] Signal Corps Info Golden Nuggets.

[Bill & Arlene Hooper]

"BTW, one of the contributory failures in the chain that led to the
loss
of Amelia Earhart was her choosing to delete the reel (as in reel-out
wire) antenna that made possible transmitting on 600 kHz. No reel
antenna, no LF transmit, as the fixed onboard aerial was just too
small
a fraction of a wavelength at 600 kHz. So - she could not transmit to
the USCG ship Itasca on this frequency, and have them take a bearing
on her signal. The Itasca could not df at the HF frequencies of her
transmitter.
Regards, Hue Miller"

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 - they heard her just fine, she couldn't hear them (or didn't indicate she did) and the reason they couldn't DF her was (a) she
wouldn't keep her transmitter keyed long enough for a bearing to be taken by the ship and (b) the special DF shore station set up
for her had the batteries run down with no replacements - but with new batteries they still probably wouldn't have been able to take
a bearing if she wouldn't key the mike long enough.

Trivia but lots of research -


      Bill & Arlene Hooper

      billnroo@earthlink.net


           John 3:16

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