Aaaah, the "S5" Reception...
Originally Posted by
First_Principal
With regard to your post on radio, earlier I posted some data on sunspot activity at the time (it being, simplistically, the peak of the peak). In my view this data does not set aside the possibility that a physically distant transmitting station could be heard strongly, possibly as if local, given the frequencies in use. In other words it cannot be disproven, albeit it cannot be proven either.
FP.
In 1994 when I first entered this "Earhart Search", I was in the Quality Assurance Office at Air Niugini and sat at the next desk to me was a highly qualified Avionics Inspector who had previously had his own business in the Land of Sand. He was interested enough to read Mary Lovell's "The Sound of Wings" ...and immediately on returning the book, he said four things.
1: "Very Interesting"
2: Her Receiver was out.
3: 1937 was a year of high sunspot activity.
4: The S5 heard at the
USCG ITASCA, meant nothing in regard to her being close, she could have been a thousand miles away and still be S5.
Basically the same as First_Principal is saying.