Marty - fair enough, and I'm glad you understood my caveats. We only have sparse information to winnow through, and interpretation is hard and indefinite. Indeed, what the Lae operator heard may have been unrelated to the request, and might simply have been Amelia continuing to transmit without knowledge of Lae's request. It's a tantalizing puzzle, not unlike 'signs of recent habitation' in another thread. The response to the 7500 Khz transmission was unambiguous (Quote: "Bellarts states: "KHAQQ clng Itasca we recd ur sigs...", close quotes. Also Black and Thompson reported similar notes, from Marty's link, above), and immediately following the transmission (not on the hour/half hour). Wouldn't it be nice to have more information like that record?