[Milsurplus] Earhart video. Interesting radio shots.

[Hubert Miller]

Interesting radio shots in this well produced but not convincing video. At 00:13, an RME 69. At 00:15, a Patterson or Breting 12 ? Later, an RCA AR-60 at left
side of USCG radio station.

I used to participate in the TIGHAR online email group ( when it was like this one ) and a lot of egoic headbutting went on, which I think ( I hope ) I have
outgrown, but also thanks to TIGHAR, a lot of obscure historical records were brought to light.  
I had some differences with the TIGHAR interpretations and submissions. I don't want to undertake any kind of rematch. I outsourced my own investigation.
But I do want to mention:
I may well have initiated the "harmonic theory"" when I pointed out the lack of harmonic suppression in the plane's W.E. transmitter.
Bob Brandenburg, TIGHAR's "radio expert", is a physics professor with as far as I can tell, no real-world experience in radio communications, who has the math
ability, as I see it, to proceed from sketchy propositions and fortify them by using higher math and simulation software. I recall in describing the plane's antenna,
he described it as "broadly resonant", with no discussion of impedance versus wavelength, apparently treating it like a pure resistance. The Smithsonian man's 
questioning why apparently no one stateside except credulous civilians heard A.E. is the same question I asked. It's not like very few people were listening in 
those radio-obsessed years. The video finishes with an excerpt of the 'Betty interview'. I had the complete video, but also gave that away, and anyway there's 
no winning that argument, or even having troublesome questions raised; they are dismissed, as they don't contribute to the grand unifying theory. I asked how a
close-talking aircraft microphone, designed and adjusted for use in a noisy aircraft, could pick up both sides of a conversation. This was not a broadcast studio -
or was it? The Betty log notebook also has such difficult to explain items as "Take it away, pal" - like something out of a remote broadcast pickup. And a ham 
callsign W4OK, which was a Florida ham's call; even with that,  however Ric Gillespie argues that we need not take this as a ham call. Also at one point Betty hears
A.E. tell navigator Noonan to "Here, listen to the radio"; I pointed out that the radio system was not duplex, which fact Ric was astonishingly unaware of, or
didn't care to be aware of. Also I kind of wonder how Betty's 1930s tube radio stayed stable over an hour while tuned to one of the higher frequency harmonics.
Betty was adamant she never retuned it - I take this as maybe true, but also that she thought maybe allowing that she adjusted the dial would vitiate her whole
story.  Anyway, I wish TIGHAR all good luck with their current expedition. To me, it is  suspicious that no major part of the aircraft has been found on the island
or just offshore. 
-Hue 

>Subject: [Milsurplus] Earhart video. Interesting radio shots.

https://youtu.be/2GTQG3PELsI

Is that a TCK in first ten seconds? 

I do not believe any post crash radio calls were made by Earhart but it makes a good story. 

73
Mark
AF6IM