Hi Bob
re:
But then there is Amelia...
Is he going to attempt to reproduce some of the conditions that existed back in 1937? Will he transmit on AM rather than upper sideband? Will he transmit on other bands beside 20 meters to simulate harmonic reception? Will he transmit during daylight or nighttime? Credible signals were heard both times.
I'm interested, too, and I have some preliminary ideas. The easiest thing to do is to simply move transmission time to daylight hours in the USA, to try to match the times the credible post- lost messages were heard in the States. AM would be preferable, is that is how Amelia was transmitting, and to make it easier for those unfamiliar with SSB to participate. But, since the issue is propagation, SSB or AM would be OK. Listeners should expect to fading, due properties of the ionosphere. It would seem that it might take a lot of time for a listener to catch a signal, and a lot of transmission time.
Just a thought, and for all I know, something like that is planned.