[Milsurplus] Earhart video. Interesting radio shots.

[AKLDGUY .]

I remain convinced that Earhart used a "science project" as a guise for
trying to set a new world record. By 1937, aviation administrations were
clamping down hard on record setting and planes were getting faster. The
Lae - Howland Island leg might have been a last effort to set a slow speed
record of 2,550 miles in not less than 25.5 hours.

Noonan was probably spot on with his navigation and they saw Howland
Island. Earhart then feigned radio problems while circling around the
island just over the horizon in order to pass through the 25.5 hour
barrier. Noonan might have become aware that he was essentially being
kidnapped and that his life was in danger.

Unfortunately, Earhart misjudged her fuel and the plane crashed into the
ocean just over the horizon from the island. This seems to be borne out by
the last position report, which is quite close. Unfortunately, the water
there is very deep.

73 de Neil ZL1ANM

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> 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
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