So you don't 'buy it' Dave. That's not a '200 pound gorilla'. You're still going on about why something just must be a certain way that you feel it should - and continue to offer no specifics.
That amounts to zip.
Same is true for your own possibilities for frequency tinkering, Gary - who cares what they might have done? Other than what they 'might' have done, what can you show about what they were up to?
Go into all that oral history and show us one firm example of where the kids were apparently busy tinkering out there to tweak their sets to go about this sinister task and this would get far more interesting. Until that happens, all this '800 pound gorilla' talk and notions of kids wanking around with amateur sets to ghost for AE amount to nothing but strawmen - there's far less substance in these arguments than the ones you wish to challenge.
Until there is more substance here to support these phantom transmissions there is no challenge here, just circular speculation.
LTM -
Jeff, you can't have it both ways. Tighars theory is speculation and "what ifs" and "would have dones" with bits of tantalizing evidence.
Amelia "would have" turned south
Amelia would have conserved fuel to make it to Gardner
Amelia would have landed on the reef
Amelia would not beach her plane
Amelia might not have had water to live a week
Fred might have a head injury
Amelia might have been inland when the search planes flew over
static received 1000 miles away was close to 3105khz so it must be her
The voices heard 6000 miles away might have been AE and Fred if the planets aligned just right, the ozone layer was just right, and AE was calling George about her suitcase. My favorite by the way.
A keyed mic left on for 2 hours was AE's carrier wave so maybe she tied down the microphone while wading back and forth to the plane.
The plane was not there a week later so it "might" have washed off the reef.
This speculation happens all the time. But that's ok as long as it fits the Gardner theory right? We can speculate without evidence as long as it fits her landing on a reef and calling for help.
Now if someone else comes up with an alternative to these transmissions,with evidence that points to either an accidental or intentional hoaxer then you throw it out as hogwash, and with a wave of the hand, saying "it's all speculation."
Yes, I agree. I wasn't there. Neither were you. I am connecting the dots. We do a lot of speculating.But I am not just throwing out Hockey pucks. Per Gary's analysis, all the bearings of these post loss transmissions could have come from Baker island. Fact. Per the documented logs, there were transmissions coming over on 3105 that were neither from AE or the Itasca. Fact. Per the documented logs, at least one Island operator has a memory of the events that does not match written reports. Fact.
As far as finding firm evidence the land Ham operators were "tinkering" or sending out potentially misleading transmissions, I rather doubt they took photographs of themselves doing it, if sending the US Navy on a wild goose chase. Let's be serious. If you demand that kind of evidence then just have another glass of tea and dismiss all this talk, because that is never going to happen. If someone by accident, or intent, mislead the Navy, he isn't going to confess or leave a written account of doing it.
But if you want the most conclusive evidence that the Brandenburg report was flawed, here you go once again-
It was summarized that there were no other possibilites for these post loss signals on 3105KHZ but the Itasca or AE. Yet, we have Japanese Music being played on that same frequency. There is your specific. That proves the brandenburg conclusion is incorrect.
http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/ResearchPapers/Brandenburg/signalcatalog.html http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Logs/HowlandRadioLog.pdf There was indeed at least one other source, maybe several, for these post loss transmissions. None of them need come from the electra.
Where did it come from? Well Baker Island Triangulates very nicely, but that is just speculating.
The point is, I found specific examples which PROVE an alternative source besides Earhart. Which proves Brandenburgs summary was flawed. Which means the Post loss transmissions may not be evidence for a reef landing.
If you want to say that is "zilch", to each his own.