[R-390] 51J transceiver in Amelia Earhart Film

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 22:31:28 +0000

And that test bench featured a Hallicrafters SX-71 receiver and R-46 speaker 
through which simulated transmissions from Earhart were fed by the Collins 
engineers in attempting to plot signal strength reports...

de Mike, K�MYW

> Gentlemen?
> 
> Anyone catch this program on the Travel Channel last night?
> 
> They had some re-enacted film from the Cutter Itasca doing a DF on AE's plane. 
> Appeared that they were talking to her on a 51J receiver, looked like a light
> gray variation.
> 
> Anyway, later in the program they showed an effort by a group of folks from
> Rockwell Collins who were doing technical analysis on the signal data of the
> event, trying to ascertain the logical location of the plane from the DF and
> signal strength info from the log of Itasca.
> 
> Pretty interesting stuff.  
> 
> Of course, lots of Collins gear in the pictures, except for one Collins
> employee who runs Kenwood gear.
> 
> 73 N5OFF
> 
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