John O
The 1730 GCT message you referred to is 18 minutes after her 1712 "we must be on you"...etc message and she is just then discovering (or just mentioning) that she couldn't get a minimum?
What in the world was she doing at 200 miles, 100 miles, etc. The plan was to acquire an RDF signal at 200 miles and ride it in.
So, after flying for 17 and a half hours and calculating that she is near her destination she decides to try her RDF and finds that it didn't work, something she knew the day before she took off.
Shaking my head in disbelief.