Itasca Primary Log excerpts July 2, 1937


Itasca local time GMT Greenwich Mean Time
(also flight hours)

0245 - 48 14:15 - 18
HEARD EARHART PLANE BUT UNREADABLE THRU STATIC

03:45 15:15
EARHART HEARD FONE WILL LISTEN ON HOUR AND HALF ON 3105 SEZ SHE

0453 16:23
HEARD EARHART - PART CLDY

0614-15 17:44
WANTS BEARING ON 3105 KCS ON HOUR WILL WHISTLE IN MIC
ABOUT 200 MILES OUT APX WHISTLING NOW

0645-46 18:15
PSE TAKE BEARING ON US AND REPORT IN HALF HOUR
WILL MAKE NOISE IN MIC ABOUT 100 MILES OUT

0742 19:12
KHAQQ CLNG ITASCA WE MUST BE ON YOU BUT CANNOT SEE YOU BUT GAS IS RUNNING LOW UNABLE TO REACH YOU BY RADIO WE ARE FLYING AT 1000 FEET

0758 19:28
KHAQQ CALLING ITASCA WE ARE CIRCLING BUT CANNOT HR U GA ON 7500 WID A LONG COUNT EITHER NOW OR ON THE SKD TIME ON 1/2 HOUR (KHAQQ S5 A3)

0800-03 19:30
KHAQQ CLNG ITASCA WE RCVD UR 3105* BUT UNABLE TO GET MINIMUM PSE TAKE BEARING ON US AND ANS 3105 WID VOICE / GA 3105 NRUI DE KHAQQ LONG DASHES ON 3105/

0842-46 20:13
KHAQQ TO ITASCA WE ARE ON LINE 157 337 WL REPT MSG WE WILL REPT THIS ON 6210 KCS WAIT, 3105/ A3 AS (7/ KHAQQ XMISSION WE ARE
N ES S**
RUNNING ON LINE LSNIN 6210 KCS

* No doubt this is a log entry error because Earhart had just asked the ship to transmit on 7500. Had she received Itasca on 3105, she would have heard the operator calling on voice.

** "N ES S" (North and South) appears in the original log above "RUNNING ON" as shown here. Obviously the log keeper added it as an after thought in an effort to explain the meaning of "157 - 337". Unfortunately, investigators took it to mean that Earhart actually declared that she was "running north and south".