Highlights From the Forum January 1 through 6, 2001 |
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Top Three Reasons | Kenton Spading | |
Meyers-Briggs Test | Dave Bush | |
Satellite Photos | Dan Postellon | |
Radio Propagation | Tom Byers | |
Re: Radio Propagaion | Tom Byers | |
Re: Satellite Photos | Pete | |
Castaways | Dennis McGee | |
Re: Radio Propagation | Mike Everette |
The Meyers-Briggs test is actually a "personality" categorizing "test". There are no correct or incorrect answers. Each anwer places you in one of several types of "personalities." There are a number of such tests, some more involved than others. With the Meyers-Briggs, there are about 200,000,000 questions that you have to answer (actually only 3 questions, but asked over and over and over again with different formats in order to insure that you actually answer every one of them identically --- however, if you answer everyone of them EXACTLY the same, they think you are being a smart ass, so you have to miss one out of every ten to seem NORMAL because no one is that consistent in their personality --- except me, I miss the one in ten ON PURPOSE, so they won’t think that I am a smart ass, tho I still get accused of it on occasion). Psychological tests are always a lot of fun because you can play with the answers and get a different "personality" on every test (or give them the personality they are looking for on that particular occasion). They anticipate that everyone will answer the test based on the way they would actually respond in everyday life, thus clumping you into one of three types of personalities. Type "A", "E" or "S" for some tests or into quadrants for others where you have factors that put you on a sliding scale depending on whether you are under stress or understressed or whatever. There are probably a dozen or more and they are always being re-defined as the psycho-analytical types learn more about our psyches.
LTM, From Ric Ohh okay. I know the tests you mean. Actually there are only two kinds of people in the world. Those who divide everything into groups and those who don’t. |
Unfortunately, not of Niku or Howland. There is a good 4 meter resolution photo or Baker Island at SpaceImaging. One of the US coral reef programs recently bought a lot of images from these people, but I can’t find out if it included Niku. Their website says that you can see underwater to a depth of 30 meters, which is deeper that you would want to dive for any prolonged period. You can play around with the larger image, even with a program like Microsoft Picture It, and enhance the outlines of old buildings on the island. Is anyone interested in pursuing buying a custom one meter photo of Niku? The price is out of my range. Dan Postellon Tighar #2263 From Ric If there actually was such a creature we should probably find a way to get our hands on it. |
Lo-band "very high frequency" (VHF) (40 mHz) military radios normally communicate on a line of sight. However, when. there is a peak in the sunspot cycle (every 11 years) they can send and receive for thousands of miles resulting in unwanted interference with local communications. The last peak was about 1990 and the cycle may well be peaking again. (VHF was not used in aviation until after WW2.) The radio equipment on the Earhart flight used what is known as "high frequency, 3 -30 mHz" (HF) . The 3 mHz would be used at night while the 7 mHz was used during the day. My guess is that the normal range would be several hundred miles. Tom Byers (Springfield, MO) From Ric If I’m not mistaken (and if I am I’ll hear about it) there was some VHF used for plane-to-plane communication during WWII. Earhart’s particular radio set up and its capabilities have been and will, I’m sure, continue to be the subject of much debate on this forum. |
I wonder if any photos exist of the radio equip used by Earhart. Tom Byers (Springfield, MO) From Ric If you mean photos of the equipment when it was installed in the airplane, very few. Most of it was hidden from view. The receiver was under the copilot’s seat and the dynmotor was under the pilot’s seat. The transmitter was on the floor of the cabin under the navigator’s table. There is a photo of AE sitting on the tranmsmitter before the table was installed. A few cockpit shots also show the remote for the receiver. |
I re-read the post, and got to thinking. There was an outfit that was selling images from Soviet satellites I saw in an old catalog. I wonder, if Canton Island was a missile test facility, maybe of those sats passed over Niku on its way to view Canton. I’m not sure what the resolution would be. There may even have been a pass of Niku to see if the Loran station was restored, or any tracking systems installed. I’ll have to try a Net search for images like that, and report what I can come up with.
Here goes...... |
Have there been any papers written on the emotional and psychological effects be being marooned? I’m serious. I know there have been studies on POWs, survivors of all types of disasters, etc., but has anyone tried to get into the head of a person who is hopelessly (?) lost/marooned/abandoned and document the evolution of the individual’s metal and emotional health. (But then maybe if a person is hopelessly (?) lost/marooned/abandoned, by definition no one can find them and therefore there is no opportunity to learn from that experience.) I hesitate to take any clues from Hollywood’s versions of this problem -- Tom Hanks’ Castaway, Robinson Crusoe etc.-- but that seems to be about all we have to go on. I’m not even sure if this would be applicable to our problem, but then again . . .
LTM, who always wants to be saved! From Ric I’m not aware of any studies but I would think that there would be tremendous variation in individual response due to all sorts of factors --- more so than, say, with POWs who at least have some military training in common. You mention Robinson Crusoe and I think its an important point. Defoe’s novel was based upon the real-life experiences of a Scottish castaway by the name of Alexander Selkirk. The book has long been a staple of English literature and was read by virtually every well-educated English-speaking child until Gen X. I would be very surprised if Amelia Earhart had not read it. Robinson Crusoe is a cultural text book for what to do if you’re marooned on a desert island.
LTM, |
For photos of the receiver (exterior and interior), look in Modern Aircraft Radio, a 1937 textbook... darn it I cannot remember the author, but it’s listed in the bibliography of my 8th Edition article on the equipment. The transmitter is little more than a "black box" outside. Some of the old aviation mags like "Southern Flight" and "Aero Digest" have full page Western Electric ads which show this equipment nicely. Look for the 20-series receivers (20A, 20B0 and the 13-series transmitters.
LTM (who knows a picture is worth 100 words) and From Ric We have copies of those ads. We should scan them and drop them into your 8th Edition article. |
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