Thank you for responding and thank you for your kind "welcomes."
Now that I got your attention, here is the story behind this picture. According to the woman whose arm you see pictured, she heard Amelia Earhart broadcast over her radio. I am assuming this is the radio she heard that broadcast. From some of your answers, the radio must have been recently purchased. The date she said she heard the broadcast was July 3, 1937 at about 1400 Eastern Standard Time. (her local time) or approximately 1900 hours GMT. The time in the Pacific where the broadcast allegedly originated was approximately 0600 or just about sunrise. I have only superficial knowledge of these old radios, but I have been told numerous radio technicians that the best time to hear a distant broadcast is right around sunrise at the transmitting location.
At the moment, I am not sure if she had an outdoor antenna rigged to her radio (Was that common in 1937? and what time of antenna would she have used?) It is unknown what frequency she heard the broadcast. Earhart was told to transmit by voice on 3105 kHz during the night and 6210 kHz during the day time. There is confusion whether she actually followed those directions. However, it appears most of the possible legitimate radio signals that were heard following her crash were heard on the harmonics associated with 3105kHz. Amelia was using a 50-watt WE-13C transmitter. She would have had to have the right engine running on her Lockheed Electra in order to power the generator.
There appears to have been several radio listeners in the United States, Canada, and Australia that picked up legitimate transmissions from Earhart following her disappearance. What they heard was a lot of garble with a sporadic word or two. None were able to hear the location from which Earhart transmitted except the woman whose radio you see pictured in this post.
I have lots of questions, the first being, do any of you know who might own this particular model and is it still in good operating condition? As I mentioned in my original post, how many tubes does it have?
I would like to hear all of your thoughts.
Thanks,
Les Kinney
Now that I got your attention, here is the story behind this picture. According to the woman whose arm you see pictured, she heard Amelia Earhart broadcast over her radio. I am assuming this is the radio she heard that broadcast. From some of your answers, the radio must have been recently purchased. The date she said she heard the broadcast was July 3, 1937 at about 1400 Eastern Standard Time. (her local time) or approximately 1900 hours GMT. The time in the Pacific where the broadcast allegedly originated was approximately 0600 or just about sunrise. I have only superficial knowledge of these old radios, but I have been told numerous radio technicians that the best time to hear a distant broadcast is right around sunrise at the transmitting location.
At the moment, I am not sure if she had an outdoor antenna rigged to her radio (Was that common in 1937? and what time of antenna would she have used?) It is unknown what frequency she heard the broadcast. Earhart was told to transmit by voice on 3105 kHz during the night and 6210 kHz during the day time. There is confusion whether she actually followed those directions. However, it appears most of the possible legitimate radio signals that were heard following her crash were heard on the harmonics associated with 3105kHz. Amelia was using a 50-watt WE-13C transmitter. She would have had to have the right engine running on her Lockheed Electra in order to power the generator.
There appears to have been several radio listeners in the United States, Canada, and Australia that picked up legitimate transmissions from Earhart following her disappearance. What they heard was a lot of garble with a sporadic word or two. None were able to hear the location from which Earhart transmitted except the woman whose radio you see pictured in this post.
I have lots of questions, the first being, do any of you know who might own this particular model and is it still in good operating condition? As I mentioned in my original post, how many tubes does it have?
I would like to hear all of your thoughts.
Thanks,
Les Kinney
