RADIO, Shortwave and Amateur

[Douglas Westfall]

Tighar's book by Rick Gillispie is very thorough and contains a great deal of background information -- much of it not relating to their many trips to Gardner Island.

G. Richard Beckham was a Radioman 3rd Class on the USS Colorado and a spotter for Lt. Orin Fox's aircraft. Beckham flew over the Phoenix islands in search of Earhart on July 9, 1937. He stated:

"When approaching an island our planes converged in – we covered the left side – and we always went low over the islands at 100 feet. We saw a rusty ship on the reef on Gardner and trees. Fox advanced the throttle to make more noise to alert anyone that might be on the island, and could run out to the beach to be seen. We couldn’t see anyone, and we always scanned the beaches. The planes continued on to Carondelet Reef to the SE, then returned to the ship."

Dick Beckham later worked for the FAA in a long career that took him back to the Phoenix Islands in the 1960s. Dick is 93 and is living in Utah.

From the book: The Hunt for Amelia Earhart

[Swimmy]

Please delete the above as it violates the board's TOS.

Also, I noticed that when I'm not logged in, the "reply" button is accessible. I suggest that this table and all recently created tables be reviewed to make sure this "guest" posting is disabled.

Thanks.

[dgriffin]

Swimmy, is there something wrong with the post or don't we allow guests any longer?
Doug's posts were in response to a comment I made about Amelia Earhart's radios, a subject that interests both of us. He evidently was googling AE when he came across our forum. However, if we don't allow guests, we don't allow guests.

[Swimmy]

My understanding is that you have to be a registered user to post on these forums. Additionally, I think there is a provision that specifically prohibits promotion of commercial products, especially where it involves a product that you own and are advancing.

[Ralph]

My apologies to all.

Dave, We never did allow guests to post.
With the exception of a couple sections of the site, it can be read by anyone, but if you are taking the time to post, then all we ask is to go through the process of registering.

When this particular category of the board, along with the contained sections was created, the option for allowing guests to post was not removed from all of the sections.
That has been rectified.

I have allowed the two posts in the thread to remain for their historical content/reference, as it was a response to Dave, but have edited them to removed the self advertisement factor.

Again my apologies to everyone for this oversight.

[stoney]

Do you really think that guy is a publisher? Why would he be on our humble board? I don't mean to come off as sounding sarcastic; I really want to know.

[Ralph]

Actually he is, or someone was portraying him.

People trying to sell something will often use "search & seek" software or services (such as the Google service "bot" on Proboards here) to hunt down keywords and then visit the board or blog that the keywords originate from to try and peddle their product.

[dgriffin]

I believe Doug is self-published. Anyway, no guests is a good provision.

If you're reading this, Doug ... if you want, you can reach me through the Yahoo group FNSOCIETY (Fred Noonan) at:
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fnsociety/

I have either seen your posts there or you've been mentioned.