RADIO OPERATOR'S VIGIL
Signals from Mrs. Putnam SYDNKY, jul^ 21. Radio signals which were believed to have come from Mrs. Earhart Putnam 's plane on July 5 were picked up by the British motorahip Moorby, whieh ireaehed Sydney to-day from Vancouver. A carrier wave corresponding with jthat of Mrs. Putnam 's radio was heard ,.for six hours and then faded out. The Moorby was then the nearest ship 'to the spot where Mrs. Putnam apparent'ly came down. The Moorby'a radio operator spent 48 hours at his phones. He broadc&st •continually to Mrs. Putnam, asking that the carrier wave be altered to a frequency which would permit tho ship's direction finder to work, bnt there was no response. Officers on the ship expressed the opinion that Mrs. Putnam or Mr. Noonan turned the radio on and then left it, possibly because the seas were washing over.-
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 3
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