Amelia Earhart Test Transmission

[Richard O'Neill]

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<http://theradioboard.com/rb/viewtopic.php?p=71198#p71198>by *mike 
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Tue Dec 13, 2016 3:19 pm

The following was posted on another forum for distribution and may be of 
interest. I know I'll be listening. 73, -Mike-
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Mike Barraclough barraclough.mike at ... [dxld] <
dxld at yahoogroups.com <mailto:dxld at yahoogroups.com>>
Date: Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 6:01 PM
Subject: [dxld] Amelia Earhat Marshall Islands broadcast recreation
To: BDXC News <bdxc-news at yahoogroups.com>, dxld at yahoogroups.com 
<mailto:dxld at yahoogroups.com>


Dave Porter forwarded this to me:

Hi, my name is Les Kinney and I am a retired federal agent and
historical researcher. I am part of a group that will be traveling to
a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands in mid-December. Our research
concerns the theory that Amelia Earhart ran out of gas and landed
wheels down next to a small island at Mili Atoll. There were three
local natives who witnessed this landing during the late morning of
July 3, 1937. We have found aircraft artifacts on this small island
which we believe may have come from Earhart's Lockheed 10E.

We also believe Earhart broadcast distress messages that were heard
for the next several days. These voice transmissions were heard by the
U.S. Coast Guard, Navy, three Pan Am listening stations and several
radio listeners in the United States, Canada, Nauru, and Australia.
Unfortunately, because of atmospheric conditions, most likely caused
by thunder storms, most of the messages were garbled and unreadable.
Several radio listeners believed they heard Earhart speaking. Most
heard a word or two; some a sentence or more. Some thought they heard
partial latitude and longitude coordinates. None heard Earhart report
she was at a specific geographic location except one. That person was
Nina Paxton, a registered nurse from Ashland Kentucky. Nina had a new
Philco console radio and said she heard Earhart around 2 pm Eastern
Standard Time on Saturday July 3rd, 1937. Nina reported Earhart saying
they were down on a little island at Mili Atoll. Amelia mentioned her
navigator, Fred Noonan, was hurt, they were almost out of gas and
warned they couldn't stay there long.

Earhart's Lockheed Electra was equipped with a 50 watt Western
Electric model 13C transmitter. Earhart would have had to have one
engine running to transmit. For a variety of technical reasons, she
would have likely been transmitting on 6210 kilocycles high on the AM
band which was her day time frequency. There is a remote chance she
was broadcasting on 3105 kilocycles her night time radio frequency.

We would like everyone's help. We are going to attempt to duplicate
that 1937 transmission from this remote island. We will use Earhart's
identifying call sign of KHAQQ to begin the broadcast. We will
broadcast twice: at 12:30 pm or 1230 hours Eastern Standard Time (EST)
and again at 1:00 pm EST or 1300 hours on two successive days,
December 15, and 16th, 2016.

The first broadcast will be on 6210 kilocycles and will last for one
minute. We will repeat the message twice, two minutes apart. After the
third transmission on 6210 kilocycles, there will be a three minute
pause and we will then broadcast the same message on 3105 kilocycles
for one minute, three times, with a two minute delay after each
message.

We know this is a long shot. We can't duplicate the atmospheric
conditions from July 1937 and there is so much more RF interference in
2016. But it is worth a try. We are asking everyone having a receiver
capable of listening to this broadcast to tune in on these
frequencies. Whether you have an old 1930's radio, or a modern radio
with short wave capabilities, keep your cell phone cameras and video
cameras ready to capture the moment. Flash the camera on your set and
then to yourself while you record our broadcast. If you're lucky
enough to pick up the transmission, you will likely get five seconds
of fame on a future TV documentary.

If you do receive our Earhart recreated broadcast and capture the
message on your cell phone camera or camcorder, call us on site in the
Marshall Islands via satellite phone. That number is:
011-881-651-463-951.

Please pass this message on to any other radio groups, forums, or
interested friends.

Schedule: December 15, and 16, 2016

6210 Kilocycles: 12:30 pm – 12:32 pm – 12:34 pm (All times EST) +5 for GMT

3105 Kilocycles: 12:37 pm – 12:39 pm – 12:41 pm

6210 Kilocycles: 1:00 pm – 1:02 pm – 1:04 pm

3105 Kilocycles: 1:07 pm – 1:09 pm – 1:11 pm

Les Kinney

lgkinney at ...


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<http://theradioboard.com/rb/viewtopic.php?p=71199#p71199>by *KR1S 
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Tue Dec 13, 2016 3:49 pm

Thanks, Mike! Here's a photo of Amelia Earhart in the cockpit of her 
Electra 10E, from https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/ameli ... l-nr16020/ 
<https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/amelia-earharts-lockheed-electra-10e-special-nr16020/>


More information on the search: https://tighar.org/wiki/Ameliapedia

73,
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Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:37 am

Thanks Mike, very interesting.

It's a rather confusing post, talking about "AM Bands" on shortwave, 
etc. The more I think about it, the odder it seems.

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.

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).
I'm guessing that those involved aren't very experienced with radio.

The article at http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/earhart/a955/ gives a much 
more coherent story on the flight.
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.

Oh well, I have 6210 and 3105 KHz programmed into my radio.

The internet tells me that 4:30 AM (4:30) AEDT = 12:30 PM (12:30) 
Previous Day EST
So I think I'm OK to catch the first test.

Conditions are good on 6MHz tonight, not much lightning, and I can hear 
a 6MHz New Zealand weather broadcast loud and clear.
6210KHz is in the clear and free of other stations.

Whatever, I'll have a listen in the morning at 4:30am (the 16th here)

Fingers crossed

Edit: For those following this, there's series of posts from Les Kinney at
http://forums.radioreference.com/hf-mw- ... pdate.html 
<http://forums.radioreference.com/hf-mw-lw-general-discussion/344111-amelia-earharts-transmission-pacific-update.html>
where he is trying to get hold of a genuine Western Electric Model 13c 
transmitter to take to the Central Pacific.
Reading between the lines, it seems that the folks in the "expedition" 
have very little practical knowledge of radio.

.........Zim
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