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

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill & Arlene Hooper <billnroo@earthlink.net>

> "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
> > Regards, Hue Miller".....
>
> ---------------------------------------
>
>  - 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

Not quite accurate. The Itasca heard her, but had no capability to df
on
3105 or 6210.  This accounts for (a), which was fatal, even tho (b)
applies-
the island's df being down. BTW, it does not take that long to take
an rdf
fix. If she could get messages heard, she could be df'd.
Also, my typo in the original, i mean 600m (meters), not kHz. Or, 500
kHz.
Hue Miller