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Earhart Test Transmission</a></h3>
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<div class="inner">The following was posted on another forum for
distribution and may be of interest. I know I'll be listening.
73, -Mike-<br>
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Mike Barraclough barraclough.mike@... [dxld] <<br>
<a href="mailto:dxld@yahoogroups.com">dxld@yahoogroups.com</a>><br>
Date: Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 6:01 PM<br>
Subject: [dxld] Amelia Earhat Marshall Islands broadcast
recreation<br>
To: BDXC News <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bdxc-news@yahoogroups.com"><bdxc-news@yahoogroups.com></a>, <a
href="mailto:dxld@yahoogroups.com">dxld@yahoogroups.com</a><br>
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<br>
Dave Porter forwarded this to me:<br>
<br>
Hi, my name is Les Kinney and I am a retired federal agent and<br>
historical researcher. I am part of a group that will be
traveling to<br>
a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands in mid-December. Our
research<br>
concerns the theory that Amelia Earhart ran out of gas and
landed<br>
wheels down next to a small island at Mili Atoll. There were
three<br>
local natives who witnessed this landing during the late
morning of<br>
July 3, 1937. We have found aircraft artifacts on this small
island<br>
which we believe may have come from Earhart's Lockheed 10E.<br>
<br>
We also believe Earhart broadcast distress messages that were
heard<br>
for the next several days. These voice transmissions were
heard by the<br>
U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, three Pan Am listening stations and
several<br>
radio listeners in the United States, Canada, Nauru, and
Australia.<br>
Unfortunately, because of atmospheric conditions, most likely
caused<br>
by thunder storms, most of the messages were garbled and
unreadable.<br>
Several radio listeners believed they heard Earhart speaking.
Most<br>
heard a word or two; some a sentence or more. Some thought
they heard<br>
partial latitude and longitude coordinates. None heard Earhart
report<br>
she was at a specific geographic location except one. That
person was<br>
Nina Paxton, a registered nurse from Ashland Kentucky. Nina
had a new<br>
Philco console radio and said she heard Earhart around 2 pm
Eastern<br>
Standard Time on Saturday July 3rd, 1937. Nina reported
Earhart saying<br>
they were down on a little island at Mili Atoll. Amelia
mentioned her<br>
navigator, Fred Noonan, was hurt, they were almost out of gas
and<br>
warned they couldn't stay there long.<br>
<br>
Earhart's Lockheed Electra was equipped with a 50 watt Western<br>
Electric model 13C transmitter. Earhart would have had to have
one<br>
engine running to transmit. For a variety of technical
reasons, she<br>
would have likely been transmitting on 6210 kilocycles high on
the AM<br>
band which was her day time frequency. There is a remote
chance she<br>
was broadcasting on 3105 kilocycles her night time radio
frequency.<br>
<br>
We would like everyone's help. We are going to attempt to
duplicate<br>
that 1937 transmission from this remote island. We will use
Earhart's<br>
identifying call sign of KHAQQ to begin the broadcast. We will<br>
broadcast twice: at 12:30 pm or 1230 hours Eastern Standard
Time (EST)<br>
and again at 1:00 pm EST or 1300 hours on two successive days,<br>
December 15, and 16th, 2016.<br>
<br>
The first broadcast will be on 6210 kilocycles and will last
for one<br>
minute. We will repeat the message twice, two minutes apart.
After the<br>
third transmission on 6210 kilocycles, there will be a three
minute<br>
pause and we will then broadcast the same message on 3105
kilocycles<br>
for one minute, three times, with a two minute delay after
each<br>
message.<br>
<br>
We know this is a long shot. We can't duplicate the
atmospheric<br>
conditions from July 1937 and there is so much more RF
interference in<br>
2016. But it is worth a try. We are asking everyone having a
receiver<br>
capable of listening to this broadcast to tune in on these<br>
frequencies. Whether you have an old 1930's radio, or a modern
radio<br>
with short wave capabilities, keep your cell phone cameras and
video<br>
cameras ready to capture the moment. Flash the camera on your
set and<br>
then to yourself while you record our broadcast. If you're
lucky<br>
enough to pick up the transmission, you will likely get five
seconds<br>
of fame on a future TV documentary.<br>
<br>
If you do receive our Earhart recreated broadcast and capture
the<br>
message on your cell phone camera or camcorder, call us on
site in the<br>
Marshall Islands via satellite phone. That number is:<br>
011-881-651-463-951.<br>
<br>
Please pass this message on to any other radio groups, forums,
or<br>
interested friends.<br>
<br>
Schedule: December 15, and 16, 2016<br>
<br>
6210 Kilocycles: 12:30 pm – 12:32 pm – 12:34 pm (All times
EST) +5 for GMT<br>
<br>
3105 Kilocycles: 12:37 pm – 12:39 pm – 12:41 pm<br>
<br>
6210 Kilocycles: 1:00 pm – 1:02 pm – 1:04 pm<br>
<br>
3105 Kilocycles: 1:07 pm – 1:09 pm – 1:11 pm<br>
<br>
Les Kinney<br>
<br>
lgkinney@...<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div id="sig71199" class="signature">Thanks, Mike! Here's
a photo of Amelia Earhart in the cockpit of her Electra
10E, from <a class="postlink"
href="https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/amelia-earharts-lockheed-electra-10e-special-nr16020/"
onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/ameli
... l-nr16020/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
More information on the search: <a class="postlink"
href="https://tighar.org/wiki/Ameliapedia"
onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">https://tighar.org/wiki/Ameliapedia</a><br>
<br>
73,<br>
<a class="postlink" href="http://kr1s.kearman.com/"
target="_blank">http://kr1s.kearman.com/</a><br>
<a class="postlink" href="http://qrp.kearman.com/"
target="_blank">http://qrp.kearman.com/</a></div>
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<div class="content">Thanks Mike, very interesting.<br>
<br>
It's a rather confusing post, talking about "AM Bands" on
shortwave, etc. The more I think about it, the odder it seems.<br>
<br>
The oddest part is that Hams in the nearby 40m band (7.00MHz)
are repeatedly working around the world on similar low power
so surely that's an indication of what's possible. And if
memory serves, there have been a number of DXpeditions to
Baker and Howland Island themselves.<br>
<br>
I would have expected that they would use some other frequency
for liaison. You would think they would be transmitting on the
40m Ham band, rather than just outside it. Likewise the KHAQQ
callsign, it doesn't sound very legitimate (even if it was
Amelia's actual callsign).<br>
I'm guessing that those involved aren't very experienced with
radio.<br>
<br>
The article at <a class="postlink"
href="http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/earhart/a955/"
onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/earhart/a955/</a>
gives a much more coherent story on the flight.<br>
Apparently Amelia only had AM on her HF transmitter, while her
500KHz CW transmitter was out of action, as she had
inadvertently left behind her L.W. trailing Antenna. So she
only had voice.<br>
<br>
Oh well, I have 6210 and 3105 KHz programmed into my radio. <br>
<br>
The internet tells me that 4:30 AM (4:30) AEDT = 12:30 PM
(12:30) Previous Day EST<br>
So I think I'm OK to catch the first test.<br>
<br>
Conditions are good on 6MHz tonight, not much lightning, and I
can hear a 6MHz New Zealand weather broadcast loud and clear.<br>
6210KHz is in the clear and free of other stations.<br>
<br>
Whatever, I'll have a listen in the morning at 4:30am (the
16th here)<br>
<br>
Fingers crossed <br>
<br>
Edit: For those following this, there's series of posts from
Les Kinney at<br>
<a class="postlink"
href="http://forums.radioreference.com/hf-mw-lw-general-discussion/344111-amelia-earharts-transmission-pacific-update.html"
onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://forums.radioreference.com/hf-mw-
... pdate.html</a><br>
where he is trying to get hold of a genuine Western Electric
Model 13c transmitter to take to the Central Pacific.<br>
Reading between the lines, it seems that the folks in the
"expedition" have very little practical knowledge of radio.<br>
<br>
.........Zim</div>
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