Cohn, Julie (August 12, 2019). "Finding Amelia Earhart's Plane Seemed Impossible. Then Came a Startling Clue". The New York Times. reprint at MSN Dorothy Binney Putnam Upton Blanding Palmer 1888–1982." St. Lucie Historical Society, Inc. (archived). Retrieved: September 23, 2017. RDF Loop Control". tighar.org. Archived from the original on December 2, 2017 . Retrieved April 4, 2018. Amelia Earhart Biographical Sketch". George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers, Purdue University, April 1, 2008. Retrieved: September 23, 2017.

In the film Amelia (2009), Earhart is portrayed by Hilary Swank, who also served as co-executive producer of the biopic. [311] Amelia Earhart's disappearance still haunts her stepson, 83." Archived January 22, 2011, at the Portuguese Web Archive Palm Beach Post, December 27, 2004. Retrieved: July 1, 2013. United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel (1944). "Aircraft Radio Equipment 1944". Navy Training Courses. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office . Retrieved April 4, 2018– via Internet Archive. Abbott, 1937, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on October 19, 2016 . Retrieved November 19, 2017. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)Raw & Unfiltered". Expedition Unknown. Season 2. Episode 6. November 11, 2015. 33 minutes in. Travel Channel.

The USCGC Itasca was on station at Howland. Its task was to communicate with Earhart's Electra and guide them to the island once they arrived in the vicinity. Noonan and Earhart expected to do voice communications on 3105kHz during the night and 6210kHz during the day. Some of these reports of transmissions were later determined to be hoaxes but others were deemed authentic. Bearings taken by Pan American Airways stations suggested signals originating from several locations, including Gardner Island (Nikumaroro), 360 miles (580km) to the SSE. [191] [192] It was noted at the time that if these signals were from Earhart and Noonan, they must have been on land with the aircraft since water would have otherwise shorted out the Electra's electrical system. [193] [Note 38] [194] [Note 39] Sporadic signals were reported for four or five days after the disappearance but none yielded any understandable information. [195] [Note 40] The captain of USS Colorado later said: "There was no doubt many stations were calling the Earhart plane on the plane's frequency, some by voice and others by signals. All of these added to the confusion and doubtfulness of the authenticity of the reports." [196] Contemporaneous search efforts Long & Long (1999, p.116) states, "Earhart though she could take a radio bearing with her direction-finder loop on any signal between 200 and 10,000 kilocycles. She could not."

On July 2, 1937 at 10:00 in the morning (midnight GMT), Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae Airfield ( 06°43′59″S 146°59′45″E / 6.73306°S 146.99583°E / -6.73306; 146.99583) [148] in the heavily loaded Electra. Their intended destination was Howland Island ( 0°48′24″N 176°36′59″W / 0.80667°N 176.61639°W / 0.80667; -176.61639), [149] a flat sliver of land 6,500ft (2,000m) long and 1,600ft (500m) wide, 10ft (3m) high and 2,556 miles (2,221nmi; 4,113km) away. [Note 19] The expected flying time was about 20 hours, so, accounting for the 2-hour time-zone difference between Lae and Howland and crossing of the International Dateline, the aircraft was expected to arrive at Howland the morning of the next day, 2 July. The aircraft departed Lae with about 1100 gallons of gasoline. [150]

Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, the daughter of Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (1867–1930) and Amelia "Amy" ( née Otis; 1869–1962). [13] She was born in the home of her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), who was a former federal judge, the president of the Atchison Savings Bank and a leading citizen in the town. Earhart was the second child of the marriage after an infant was stillborn in August 1896. [14] She was of part German descent. Alfred Otis had not initially favored the marriage and was not satisfied with Edwin's progress as a lawyer. [15] Letter, Hooven to Goerner, December 5, 1966, "Hooven's 1966 letter to Fred Goerner quite clear: Removal of his radio compass doomed Earhart". May 15, 2017. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017 . Retrieved November 25, 2017. Commemoration Stone for Amelia Earhart's 1928 transatlantic flight, next to the quay side in Burry Port, Wales During Earhart and Noonan's approach to Howland Island, the Itasca received strong and clear voice transmissions from Earhart identifying as KHAQQ, but she apparently was unable to hear voice transmissions from the ship. Signals from the ship would also be used for direction finding, implying that the aircraft's direction finder was also not functional.In Search of: Amelia Earhart", (1976) was episode 16 of the 1976–1982 In Search Of series; this episode spurred a number of popular documentaries that followed. On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Earhart into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.

The antennas and their connections on the Electra are not certain. [168] A dorsal Vee antenna was added by Bell Telephone Laboratories. There had been a trailing wire antenna for 500kHz, but the Luke Field accident collapsed both landing gear and wiped off the ventral antennas. [169] After the accident, the trailing wire antenna was removed, the dorsal antenna was modified, and a ventral antenna was installed. It is not certain, but it is likely that the dorsal antenna was only connected to the transmitter (i.e., no "break in" relay), and the ventral antenna was only connected to the receiver. [170] Once the second world flight started, problems with radio reception were noticed while flying across the US; Pan Am technicians may have modified the ventral antenna while the plane was in Miami. [ where?] At Lae, problems with transmission quality on 6210kHz were noticed. [171] Once the flight took off from Lae, Lae did not receive radio messages on 6210kHz (Earhart's daytime frequency) until four hours later (at 2:18pm); Lae's last reception was at 5:18pm and was a strong signal; Lae received nothing after that; presumably the plane switched to 3105kHz (Earhart's nighttime frequency). [150] Itasca heard Earhart on 3105kHz, but did not hear her on 6210kHz. [172] TIGHAR postulates that the ventral receiving antenna was scraped off while the Electra taxied to the runway at Lae; consequently, the Electra lost its ability to receive HF transmissions. [Note 31] Nearing Howland Island USCGC Itasca was at Howland Island to support the flight. In the "R" position for the DU-1, the antenna signal is capacitively connected (via C-101) to the output.

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Earhart's life has spurred the imaginations of many writers and others; the following examples are given although many other mentions have also occurred in contemporary or current media: